Nonfiction work

By: Thomas Hunt Morgan

Date: 1919

Source: Morgan, Thomas Hunt. The Physical Basis of Heredity. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1919. Reproduced online at http://www.esp.org/books/morgan/physical-basis/facsimile/ti... ; website home page: http://www.esp.org (accessed May 16, 2003).

About the Author: Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945) was born in Kentucky. He received the B.S. degree in 1886 from the State College of Kentucky, and then attended Johns Hopkins University for graduate work. Morgan did research on the regeneration of earthworms and in 1890 received the Ph.D. degree with a thesis on the embryology of sea spiders. In 1891, he was appointed associate professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College, and later in 1904 acted as professor of...