# Alfred Henry Sturtevant

Alfred Henry Sturtevant (Jacksonville, 21 de novembre de 1891 - Pasadena, 5 d'abril de 1970) va ser un especialista en genètica. Sturtevant va construir el primer mapa genètic dels cromosomes el 1913. Va treballar amb l'organisme model Drosophila melanogaster junt amb Thomas Hunt Morgan. El 1967, Sturtevant va rebre la National Medal of Science.

## Biografia

Alfred Henry Sturtevant va néixer a Jacksonville, Illinois, Estats Units el 21 de novembre de 1891. A partir de 1908 va estudiar a la Universitat de Colúmbia. Es va interessar des de molt jove per l'obra de Gregor Mendel i aviat va publicar una obra sobre els pedigrees dels cavalls vistos a través de la genètica mendeliana. El 1928, ell i la seva família es traslladaren a Pasadena per treballar en el California Institute of Technology, on va ser professor de genètica. Sturtevant també es va interessar per la taxonomia, la política i el periodisme.

## Referències

* Lewis, E.B. Alfred Henry Sturtevant, National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs

## Fonts

* Allan, Garland E. Isis, Vol. 66, No. 3. (Sep., 1975),pp. 332–333.
* Biography.com. Sturtevant, Alfred Henry. A&E Television Networks, 2007.
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* Lewis, Edward B. Alfred Henry Sturtevant: November 21, 1891- April 5, 1970. Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 13, pp. 133–38. New York: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1976.
* Lewis, E.B., ed. Genetics and Evolution: Selected Papers of A.H. Sturtevant. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1961.
* Lorentz, Cindy Pham et al. History of Genetics and Sequencing of the Human Genome. Primer on Medical Genomics. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, August 2002, Vol 77. pp. 773–782.
* Provine, William B. Alfred Henry Sturtevant and Crosses Between Drosphila melanogaster and Drosphila simulans. Genetics 129:1-5 (September 1991)
* Quiros, Carlos F. Lecture 3 - Cell Division, Chromosome theory of Inheritance, Sex Linkage. November 15, 2005. University of California at Davis. April 8, 2007. <http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/bis101/lectures/lec03.html Arxivat 2007-01-05 at Archive.is >
* Steen, Francis F. Landmarks in the History of Genetics. 1998. University of California at Los Angeles. April 8, 2007. < http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/DNA_history.html>
* Sturtevant, A.H. A History of Genetics. 2001. The Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project. April 8, 2007. < http://www.esp.org/books/sturt/history/readbook.html>
* Sturtevant, A.H., and G.W. Beadle. An Introduction to Genetics. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Company, 1940.