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Edward Lawrie Tatum

Edward Lawrie Tatum
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Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George 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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  1. Edward Lawrie Tatum (this page)December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975
  2. Lev ArtsimovichFebruary 12, 1909 – March 1, 1973
  3. Marguerite PereyOctober 19, 1909 – May 13, 1975
  4. Rita Levi-MontalciniApril 22, 1909 – December 30, 2012
  5. Robert SerberMarch 14, 1909 – June 1, 1997
  6. Stanisław UlamApril 13, 1909 – May 13, 1984

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