Edward Lawrie Tatum

Edward Lawrie Tatum ( born December 14, 1909 in Boulder, Colorado, † November 5, 1975 in New York City ) was an American geneticist.

He attended college at the University of Chicago and then studied at the University of Wisconsin, where he in 1934 received his Ph.D. in biochemistry. From 1937 he conducted research at Stanford University and worked here with George Wells Beadle. Since 1941 Tatum was able to confirm with aid of the mold Neurospora crassa Garrod one- gene-one enzyme hypothesis together with Beadle.

From 1945 he worked at Yale University along with Joshua Lederberg and 1946, the event had the conjugation by. In 1948, he returned to Stanford, in 1957 he joined the Rockefeller University.

In 1958 he got together with Beadle the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery that genes are effective in that they regulate certain chemical processes ." The other half of the Nobel Prize went to his other colleagues Lederberg.