Thomas Hunt Morgan Working with Drosophila, established that gene are carried on chromosome and form the functional basis of heredity: essentially establishing the modern science of genetics X X 1866-1945: American Geneticist Professor Columbia and california Institute of Technology; Tan Jiazhen Nobel Prize: Physiology or Medicine 1933 Link with (谈家桢) Fudan “ Father of modern University genetics in China 1909-2008Thomas Hunt Morgan Link with Fudan University: 1866- 1945; American Geneticist Professor Columbia and California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize: Physiology or Medicine 1933 Working with Drosophila, established that gene are carried on chromosome and form the functional basis of heredity: essentially establishing the modern science of genetics Tan Jiazhen (谈家桢) “Father of modern genetics in China” 1909-2008