What is Thomas Hunt Morgan?
{{Nobelprize|Physiology or Medicine}} {{Infobox Scientist |name = Thomas Hunt Morgan |box_width = |image =Thomas_Hunt_Morgan.jpg |image_size =200px |caption =Johns Hopkins yearbook of 1891 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|9|25}} | birth_place = [[Lexington, Kentucky]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|12|4|1866|9|25}} | death_place = [[Pasadena, California]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States]] |ethnicity = |field = [[genetics|geneticist]]<br />[[Embryology|embryologist]] |work_institutions = [[Bryn Mawr College]]<br />[[Columbia University]]<br />[[California Institute of Technology]] |alma_mater = [[University of Kentucky]]<br />[[Johns Hopkins University]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = [[Alfred Sturtevant]]; Calvin Bridges<br />[[George Beadle]]; Alexander Weinstein<br />Edgar Altenburg; [[Hermann Muller]] |known_for = ''[[Drosophila melanogaster]]'' |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize in Physiology<br /> or Medicine]] in 1933 |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Thomas Hunt Morgan''' (25 September 1866 – 4 December 1945) was an [[United States|American]] [[genetics|geneticist]] and [[Embryology|embryologist]]. Morgan took his [[PhD]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] in 1890, and researched embryology while at [[Bryn Mawr College]]. After the rediscovery of [[Mendelian inheritance]] in 1900, Morgan switched his research to the fruit fly ''[[Drosophila melanogaster]]''. In 1904, [[E.B. Wilson]] invited Morgan to join him at [[Columbia University]]. This move freed Morgan to focus fully on experimental work.<ref name=Allen>Allen, Garland E. 1978. ''Thomas Hunt Morgan: the man and his science''. Princeton University Press, pp 68-70. {{ISBN|0-691-08200-6}}</ref> In his famous Fly Room at Columbia, Morgan