To a dowdy little old zoologist, pottering in spectacles and carpet slippers among millions of bottled fruit flies at Pasadena, last week went the 1933 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cried Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan with academic orthodoxy:
"I am very happy, of course, to hear about the award. I am especially appreciative of it as a recognition of the importance of genetics to medical science."
Dr. Morgan's technical superior at the California Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate Robert Andrews Millikan, would not let Dr. Morgan's acknowledgment pass so modestly. Exclaimed he proudly :...