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Edward Tatum

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Gender Male
Death48 years ago
Date of birth December 14,1909
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Boulder
Colorado
United States
Date of died November 5,1975
DiedNew York
New York
United States
NationalityAmerican
Field Genetics
Job Geneticist
Education University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of Chicago
Notable student Joshua Lederberg
Aaron Shatkin
Carolyn Slayman
Awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Edward Lawrie Tatum 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.

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