George Wells Beadle (* 22 October 1903 in Wahoo, Nebraska, the USA; "† 9 June 1989 in Pomona, California, the USA) was an US-American biologist, who itself with priority with genetics busy.

It kept common with Edward Lawrie Tatum in the year 1958 a half Nobelpreis for medicine and physiology. Honor reason was their discovery that genes work over the fact that they adjust biochemical procedures within cells. The second half of the Nobelpreises 1958 went at Joshua leather mountain.

Beadle and Tatum suspended Roentgen irradiation into their scientific investigations the bread mould Neurospora crassa and produced by it mutations. In a set of experiments they could show that these mutations by changes of specific enzymes was released. These experiments led it to the thesis that a direct connection between genes and enzymatic reactions is present. This thesis is called also in gene in enzyme hypothesis.

Beadle received from the university from Nebraska its Bachelor OF Science to 1928. It attained a doctorate to 1933 at the Cornell university in the year 1931. co-operated it with the Thomas Hunt Morgan in the California institutes OF Technology (Caltech). As a professor it was active both at the Harvard university and to the Caltech. It led the university of Chicago as a president from 1961 to 1968.

Works

• George Wells Beadle; The LANGUAGE OF Life, 1966

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