Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (born 1891)

Alfred Sturtevant

American biologist (1891–1970)

Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest…