What is Newton Morton?
[[File:Newton Morton,.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Morton in the 1950s]] '''Newton Ennis Morton''' (21 December 1929 &ndash; 7 February 2018) was an American population [[geneticist]]. He was born in [[Camden, New Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Academia Brasileira de Ciências|url = http://www.abc.org.br/resultado.php3?codigo=nem|website = www.abc.org.br|access-date = 2015-07-29|archive-date = 2015-07-30|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150730203821/http://www.abc.org.br/resultado.php3?codigo=nem|url-status = dead}}</ref> He was one of the founders of the field of [[genetic epidemiology]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Morton |first= N. E. |date=1982 | title=Outline of Genetic Epidemiology | url=https://archive.org/details/outlineofgenetic0000mort |publisher=Karger| location= New York| isbn=3-8055-2269-X }}</ref> Morton died on 7 February 2018 in [[Southampton]], [[England]] at the age of 88.<ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/browse?dateRange=today Newton Morton]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Morton, Newton}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:American geneticists]] [[Category:Scientists from New Jersey]] [[Category:People from Camden, New Jersey]] {{US-bio-stub}}