Thomas H. Morgan
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Thomas H. Morgan (1866-1945), considered one of the founders of modern genetics, was Professor of Experimental Zoology at Columbia University, and later, chairman of the Department of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. His early work on the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster lead to the discovery of recombination and genetic linkage.
Ironically, Morgan received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1933 for his role in the discovery of the fact that genes are located on chromosomes, a position he was previously considered to be a vocal opponent of.
