GEORGE BEADLE, 85
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING BIOLOGIST
Author: Associated Press
Date: Monday, June 12, 1989
Page: 20
Section: OBITUARY
POMONA, Calif. -- George W. Beadle, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and
former president of the University of Chicago, died Friday after a long
illness. He was 85.
Mr. Beadle, who also taught at Harvard and Cornell universities and the
California Institute of Technology, shared the Nobel Prize in physiology and
medicine in 1948 with Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg for their discovery
that genes act by controlling enzymes that direct chemical reactions.
His later studies clarified the origins of domestic corn, and he was the
author of a number of books on genetics.
Mr. Beadle was born on a farm near Wahoo, Neb. He received his doctorate
degree from Cornell University in 1931.
He was named president of the University of Chicago in 1961 and retired in
1968.
Mr. Beadle leaves his wife, Muriel Barnett Beadle of Pomona; his sister,
Ruth; his sons, Redmond Barnett and David Beadle; and five grandchildren.
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