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November 5, 1975 (65 years old)
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Sagittarius
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Celebrities born on December 14
Born in 1909
Born in Boulder, Colorado
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Edward Lawrie Tatum is an American geneticist. He shared half of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of the prize went to Joshua Lederberg that year. Beadle and Tatum's main experiments involved X-ray exposure of the baker's Neurospora crassa bacteria, which caused mutations. In a series of experiments, they have shown that these mutations cause changes in specific enzymes involved in metabolic pathways. These experiments, published in 1941, led them to propose a direct relationship between a gene and an enzymatic response, known as the “one gene, one enzyme” hypothesis. Tatum continues to study the genetics of bacteria. An active research area in his laboratory is studying the basis of tryptophan biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. Then Tatum and student Joshua Lederberg showed E. coli can share genetic information by recombination. Tatum was born in Boulder, Colorado.
BornEdward Lawrie Tatum, December 14, 1909, Boulder, Colorado, United States
DiedNovember 05, 1975, New York City, United States
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsStanford University, Yale University, Rockefeller Institute
Alma materUniversity of Chicago, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral studentsJoshua Lederberg, Carolyn Slayman
Other notable studentsEsther M. Lederberg
Known forGene regulation of biochemical events within cells
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

About Edward Tatum

Geneticist Edward Tatum was born on December 14, 1909 in Boulder, Colorado, United States (He dies at the age of 65, on November 5, 1975).

Geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1958 for proving that genes regulate particular metabolic stages. Later in his career, he made significant contributions to the field of bacterial genetics.

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Edward Tatum before becoming famous

Edward Tatum was born in the Zodiac sign Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer), and 1909 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rooster (雞).

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree, he continued on to study the conditions under which bacteria thrived.

Achievement of Edward Tatum

Before studying Neurospora bacterial culture to prove that 'one gene creates one protein,' he conducted effective research on the genetics of corn and Drosophila flies, which was the beginning of bacterial genetics.

Edward Tatum's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His father was a medical doctor and a professor at many institutions, and he was born in Boulder, Colorado.

Edward Tatum Collabed with

Biologist Joshua Lederberg was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 for his work on bacterial genetics.

Joshua Lederberg (1925 - 2008) (Biologist)
Joshua Lederberg (1925 - 2008)

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