Alfred Sturtevant, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Sturtevant

American geneticist

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1891

Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1970

Profession: university teacher, botanist, geneticist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist.
Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911.
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.