| Date of Birth | 21-November-1891 | |
| Place of Birth |
Jacksonville (Morgan County, Illinois, United States of America) |
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| Nationality | United States of America | |
| Also know as | A. H. Sturtevant | |
| Profession | Geneticist | |
| Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. In 1967, Sturtevant received the National Medal of Science. | ||
Awards by Alfred Sturtevant |
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1965
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