1. Walter Stanborough Sutton was an American geneticist and biologist 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.
Walter Sutton distinguished himself as a student by being elected to both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and receiving both bachelor's and master's degrees by 1901.
McClung, Sutton moved to Columbia University for further study of zoology under Dr Edmund B Wilson.
Walter Sutton's hypothesis was widely accepted by most scientists, particularly cytologists, at the time.
Walter Sutton did not complete his PhD in Zoology as he originally planned.
Walter Sutton then began an internship at Roosevelt Hospital in New York working in the surgical division headed by Dr Joseph Blake.
In 1909, Walter Sutton returned to Kansas City, Kansas where his family had relocated and his father and brother were in law practice.
Walter Sutton was appointed assistant professor of surgery at the four-year-old University of Kansas Medical School.
For six years, Walter Sutton performed a wide range of surgeries carefully documenting the procedures.
Walter Sutton published several articles related to these cases going back to his internship at Roosevelt.
Walter Sutton's return sailing from France was on June 26,1915, having stayed only four months, but have made a significant contribution to wartime medical treatment.
Dr Walter Sutton died rather unexpectedly at the age of 39 due to complications from acute appendicitis.