What is Alfred Sturtevant?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} '''Alfred Henry Sturtevant''' (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an [[Americans|American]] [[genetics|geneticist]]. Sturtevant made the first genetic map of a [[chromosome]] in 1913.<ref>Lewis E.B. [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/asturtevant.pdf Alfred Henry Sturtevant], National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs</ref> In his career he worked on the fruit-[[fly]] ''[[Drosophila melanogaster]]'' with [[Thomas Hunt Morgan]]. Morgan was both a help and a hindrance to Sturtevant. Morgan supported him through the early part of his career, but took much of the credit for the research. Morgan's [[Nobel Prize]] in 1933 was not shared with Sturtevant, who was the lab's main researcher. Later in his career, Sturtevant had another important relationship, this time with [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]]. The research was into the genetics of natural populations of ''Drosophila''. This relationship, too, became uneasy, and they split up after a few years. Sturtevant was one of the most outstanding genetics researchers not to get a Nobel Prize.<ref>Kohler, Robert E. 1994. ''Lords of the fly: Drosophila genetics and the experimental life''. Chicago.</ref> In 1967, Sturtevant received the [[National Medal of Science]]. ==Works== * Lewis E.B. ed. 1961. ''Genetics and evolution: selected papers of A.H. Sturtevant''. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. * Sturtevant A.H. 1965. ''A history of genetics''. Harper & Row N.Y. == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sturtevant, Alfred}} [[Category:1891 births]] [[Category:1970 deaths]] [[Category:American geneticists]] [[Category:Cell biologists]] [[Category:Scientists from Illinois]]