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Biography
Early life
Walter Sutton received his Doctorate in medicine, an M.D., in 1907.
Career
The German biologist Theodor Boveri independently reached the same conclusions as Sutton, and their concepts, often referred to as the Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory, remained controversial in the biological world until 1915, when Thomas Hunt Morgan made the theory universally-accepted through his studies of Drosophila melanogaster.
References
- Ernest W. Crow and James F. Crow (2002). "100 Years Ago: Walter Sutton and the Chromosome Theory of Heredity". Genetics 160: 1–4. PMID 11805039, http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/full/160/1/1.
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