Thomas Hunt Morgan was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933 For his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in here

Thomas Hunt Morgan was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933

For his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity

The work for which the prize was awarded was completed over a 17-year period at Columbia University, commencing in 1910 with his discovery of the white-eyed mutation in the fruit fly, Drosophila.