Alfred Sturtevant Scientist

Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. In 1967, Sturtevant received the National Medal of Science.

Personal facts

Birth dateNovember 21, 1891
Birth place
Jacksonville Illinois
Date of deathApril 05, 1970
Education
Columbia University

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awards
National Medal of Science
John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Field of study
Genetics

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External resources

  1. http://www.esp.org/books/sturt/history/readbook.html
  2. http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/holdings/s/ahs-13.pdf
  3. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8183
  4. http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/asturtevant.pdf
  5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fc
  6. http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/bis101/lectures/lec03.html