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Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg.
Tatum’s research has been concerned primarily with the biochemistry, nutrition and genetics of microorganisms and of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
Edward Lawrie Tatum. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958. Born: 14 December 1909, Boulder, CO, USA. Died: 5 November 1975, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, USA.
Edward L. Tatum (born Dec. 14, 1909, Boulder, Colo., U.S.—died Nov. 5, 1975, New York, N.Y.) was an American biochemist who helped demonstrate that genes determine the structure of particular enzymes or otherwise act by regulating specific chemical processes in living things.
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Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American biochemist who along with George Wells Beadle won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism.
Jun 11, 2018 · Tatum was an American-born biologist who together with George Beadle received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.” Tatum worked primarily within biochemistry, studying the nutrition and genetics of microorganisms and of Drosophila.
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Often cited as the first major discovery in the field of molecular biology, Drs. Tatum and Beadle’s work earned them the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Genetic research in the early decades of the 20th century had taken the tack of examining a cellular process in order to trace it backward to its genetic cause.
