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Thomas Hunt Morgan was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1866, and died in 1945. He worked in Natural history, Zoology, Experimental zoology[?], and macromutation in Drosophila. Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 and proved chromosomes to be the carriers of genes.

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