Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909-1975), US geneticist and Nobel laureate, making notes while using a microscope. Tatum shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physio

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Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909-1975), US geneticist and Nobel laureate, making notes while using a microscope. Tatum shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with George Wells Beadle and Joshua Lederberg. The share of the Nobel was awarded for Tatum's discovery that genes regulate cell chemistry.

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