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BEADLE, George Wells (925 words) |
 | Beadle was born on Oct. 22, 1903, on a farm near Wahoo, Nebr., and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University, from which he received a doctorate in genetics in 1931. |
| Beadle's research focused primarily on the genetics of maize at Cornell and the fruit fly Drosophila at Caltech. |
| Beadle served as president of the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1968, after which he directed the American Medical Association's Institute for Biochemical Research until 1970. |
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George Wells Beadle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (246 words) |
| George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American scientist in the field of genetics. |
| Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to x-rays, causing mutations. |
| Beadle worked with 1933 Nobel Prize winner Thomas Hunt Morgan at the California Institute of Technology. |
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