12 Facts About George Beadle

1.

George Beadle served as the 7th President of the University of Chicago.

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George Beadle was the son of Chauncey Elmer Beadle and Hattie Albro, who owned and operated a 40-acre farm nearby.

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George Beadle was educated at the Wahoo High School and might himself have become a farmer if one of his teachers at school had not directed his mind towards science and persuaded him to go to the College of Agriculture in Lincoln, Nebraska.

4.

In 1931 George Beadle was awarded a National Research Council Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, where he remained from 1931 until 1936.

5.

In 1935 George Beadle visited Paris for six months to work with Professor Boris Ephrussi at the Institut de Biologie physico-chimique.

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In 1936 George Beadle left the California Institute of Technology to become Assistant Professor of Genetics at Harvard University.

7.

In 1946 George Beadle returned to the California Institute of Technology as Professor of Biology and Chairman of the Division of Biology.

8.

George Beadle looked for the rate of appearance of parent phenotypes among this second generation.

9.

George Beadle was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1946.

10.

George Beadle received the Lasker Award of the American Public Health Association, the Dyer Award, the Emil Christian Hansen Prize of Denmark, the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award in Science, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 with Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg, the National Award of the American Cancer Society, and the Kimber Genetics Award of the National Academy of Sciences.

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George Beadle's second wife, Muriel McClure, a well-known writer, was born in California.

12.

George Beadle was a member of FarmHouse fraternity while at the University of Nebraska.