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Sutton, Walter S

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Sutton, Walter S(tanborough) (1877–1916)

US geneticist and surgeon. He used grasshopper cells to prove that chromosomal behaviour in meiosis is responsible for observed Mendelian phenomena, an achievement still recognized as classic. Sutton pursued his goal of becoming a doctor, received an MD from Columbia in 1907, and then practised surgery in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, until his death.

He was born in Utica, New York. He was a graduate student in Edmund B Wilson's laboratory at Columbia University, 1901–03.



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