George Beadle
American geneticist
Died when: 85 years 230 days (1027 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American geneticist.In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells.
He also served as the 7th President of the University of Chicago.Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold Neurospora crassa to x-rays, causing mutations.
In a series of experiments, they showed that these mutations caused changes in specific enzymes involved in metabolic pathways.These experiments led them to propose a direct link between genes and enzymatic reactions, known as the One gene-one enzyme hypothesis.
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