Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Wells 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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14 December 1909 Boulder, Colorado
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Died |
5 November 1975 (aged 65)
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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