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Authorised form of nameBeadle; George Wells (1903 - 1989)
Dates1903 - 1989
Date of birth22/10/1903
Date of death09/06/1989
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1958
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election28/04/1960
Age at election56
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1995 vol 41 pp 43-54, plate, by N H Horowitz
References:
R Holliday, 'The early years of molecular biology: personal recollections' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 195-208
CodeNA2075
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PB/1/32/4Correspondence and papers re honours received by Blackett: 1967-19681967-1968
EC/1960/26Beadle, George Wells: certificate of election to the Royal Society28 April 1960
RR/57/97Referee's report by Lancelot Thomas Hogben, on a paper 'Development of eye colours in Drosophila: Pupal transplants and the influence of body fluid on vermilion' by George Wells Beadle, C W Clancy and Boris Ephrussi[November 1936]
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