Edward Lawrie Tatum

Tatum, Edward Lawrie (1909–75), U.S. biochemist awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, with G.W. Beadle and J. Lederberg, for work with Beadle showing that individual genes control production of particular enzymes (1937–40) and for work with Lederberg showing genetic recombination in the bacterium Escherichia coli (1947).

See also: Biochemistry; Genetics.