Tag: Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora

On a winter day in Stockholm in 1958, a reserved American geneticist stepped onto the Nobel stage, sharing the spotlight with his long-time collaborator George Beadle and the young prodigy Joshua Lederberg. It was a public climax to a life spent mostly in cramped laboratories and quiet campus offices, yet almost every Edward Tatum biography begins there:…