Walter Sutton
Walter Stanborough Sutton (born April 5, 1877 in Utica (New York) , † November 10, 1916 in Kansas City ) was an American geneticist and doctor.
Sutton came from a farming family in Kansas . In 1896 he began studying engineering at the University of Kansas , but soon switched to biology and medicine after one of his brothers died of typhus . After completing his master's degree , he worked with Edmund B. Wilson at Columbia University .
In his 1903 essay The chromosomes in heredity , Sutton was the first to formulate the chromosome theory of inheritance , in which the recently rediscovered Mendelian rules of inheritance are traced back to the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis .
After completing his doctorate in medicine in 1907 , Sutton mainly worked as a surgeon until he died in 1916 of complications from acute appendicitis .
Web links
- Stanley R. and Peter S. Nelson: Walter Sutton's Chromosome Theory of Heredity: One Hundred Years Later
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| SURNAME | Sutton, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sutton, Walter Stanborough (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geneticist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Utica (New York) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1916 |
| Place of death | Kansas City |