Thomas Hunt Morgan, 1866-1945

Abstract

Thomas Hunt Morgan, born 25 September 1866 at Lexington, Kentucky, was the elder son of Charlton Hunt Morgan of that State. His mother, Ellen Key Howard, was from Baltimore. There were two younger children in the family, of whom his sister Ellen survives him. From the University of Kentucky, Morgan graduated B.S. 1886 and proceeded to postgraduate work in the same University, later removing to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, where he took his Ph.D. in 1890. From that date his academic career falls into three periods: From 1891 to 1904 he was Professor of Zoology at Bryn Mawr College for women ; 1904 to 1928, Professor of Experimental Zoology at Columbia, New York ; while from 1928 to 1945 he was Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, as director of the William G. Kerckhoff laboratories .