Walter Sutton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Sutton

American geneticist

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1877

Place of Birth: Utica, New York, United States

Date of Death: 10-Nov-1916

Profession: physician, biologist, geneticist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Walter Stanborough Sutton (April 5, 1877 – November 10, 1916) was an American geneticist and physician whose most significant contribution to present-day biology was his theory that the Mendelian laws of inheritance could be applied to chromosomes at the cellular level of living organisms.
This is now known as the Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory.