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George Beadle (1903)close

Born in Wahoo, Nebraska, Beadle was a pioneer in genetic research on the fruit fly at the California Institute of Technology. He later shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology for his work on bread molds and the influence of genes on the cell's production of enzymes.

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