American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity

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Some or all works by this author are in thepublic domain in theUnited States because they were published before January 1, 1930.
This author died in 1945, so works by this author are in thepublic domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author'slife plus 79 years or less. These works may be in thepublic domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply therule of the shorter term toforeign works.
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