Skip to main content
Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BEADLE, George Wells (1903 – 1989)

1903 – 1989

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Sort by YearSort by Title

1941

#254.3

Genetic control of biochemical reactions in Neurospora.

BEADLE, George Wells (1903 – 1989) TATUM, Edward Lawrie (1909 – 1975)

Beadle and Tatum proposed the "one gene, one enzyme" hypothesis in 1941. This was a restatement of ideas originally proposed by Archibald Garrod (No. 244.1) in 1908. 1958 Beadle and Tatum shared the Nobel Prize in Phy…