Walter Sutton
American geneticist
Died when: 39 years 219 days (475 months)Star Sign: Aries

Walter Stanborough Sutton (April 5, 1877 – November 10, 1916) was an American geneticist and physician whose most significant contribution to present-day biology was his theory that the Mendelian laws of inheritance could be applied to chromosomes at the cellular level of living organisms.
This is now known as the Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory.
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