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Through These Halls: George Beadle

DNA is the building block for life and a Nebraskan discovered an important way those blocks work

Most of us are taught in high school biology that one gene provides the code for the production of one protein. The scientist who co-discovered that fact was a Nebraska native and was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

George Wells Beadle was born in 1903 in Wahoo, Nebraska. His parents were farmers, a profession he thought he would take up until a high school teacher convinced him to go to college (Source).

Beadle graduated in 1926 with a bachelor’s degree and in 1927 with his master’s degree. He then went on to Cornell for his Ph.D. Below are a couple of photos snipped from the 1926 Cornhusker yearbook.

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