George Beadle Facts
George Beadle Facts
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| George Wells Beadle was born on a farm in Wahoo, Nebraska. |
| After graduating from Wahoo High School he attended the University of Nebraska where he received a B.S degree in 1926 and a M.S. in 1927. |
| He accepted a teaching assistantship at Cornell University where he received his PhD in 1931. |
| In 1931 he was awarded a National Research Council Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology at Pasedena where he continued his work on the genetics of Indian corn and the genetics of the fruit fly. |
| In 1935 he was sent to the Institut de Biologie physicochimique in Paris where he studied the development of eye pigment in the fruit fly. |
| Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their experiments exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to X-rays and noting the mutations. |
| They demonstrated that these mutations caused changes in specific metabolic enzymes. |
| In 1936 Beadle became Assistant Professor of Genetics at Harvard and in 1937 he was appointed Professor of Biology at Stanford University. |
| In 1946 he returned to CalTech as Professor of Biiology and Chairman of the Division of Biology. |
| In January 1961 he was elected Chancellor of the University of Chicago and later, its President. |
| He received many honors during his career including Honorary Doctor of Science at Yale (1947) , Nebraska (1949) , Northwestern (1952) Rutgers (1954) among others. |
| He was also elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1946 and was awarded the National Award of the American Cancer Society in 1959. |
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