The George W. Beadle Award is a scientific prize given by the Genetics Society of America to individuals who have made “outstanding contributions” to

Genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...

. The Award was established in 1999 and named in honor of

George Wells Beadle George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical eve ...

, who won the

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...

in 1958.

Laureates

Source
Genetics Society of America
* 1999

Michael Ashburner Michael Ashburner (born 23 May 1942) is a biologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He is also the former joint-head and co-founder of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) of the European Mo ...

* 2000

John Sulston Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' in 2002 with ...

and Robert Waterston *2001 Gerald Fink *2002 André Goffeau and Robert K. Mortimer *2003 Gerald M. Rubin and Allan C. Spradling * 2004 Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School * 2005 Thomas C. Kaufman, Indiana University * 2006 Fred Sherman, University of Rochester * 2007 Robert K. Herman, University of Minnesota * 2008 Mark Johnston, Washington University School of Medicine * 2009 Jay C. Dunlap, Dartmouth Medical School * 2010 William M. Gelbart, Harvard University * 2011 Joseph R. Ecker, Salk Institute for Biological Studies * 2012 Therese Markow, University of California, San Diego * 2013 R. Scott Hawley, Stowers Institute for Medical Research * 2014 Hugo J. Bellen, Baylor College of Medicine * 2015 John Postlethwait, University of Oregon * 2016 Susan Celniker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * 2017 Susan A. Gerbi, Brown University * 2018 Philip Hieter, University of British Columbia * 2019 Michael P. Snyder, Stanford University * 2020 Julie Ahringer, Cambridge University

References

{{reflist American science and technology awards Genetics awards 1999 establishments in the United States Awards established in 1999

Laureates

See also

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