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Thomas Hunt Morgan was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist and science author. He was born on 25 September, 1866, at Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A.  Since childhood he had shown an immense interest in natural history. In 1890, he completed his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and researched embryology during his term at Bryn Mawr. Morgan left an important legacy in genetics. His discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetics. Morgan spent 24 years of period at Columbia University, where his attention was drawn towards the actions of cytology on the broader aspects of biological interpretation. He was perhaps most renowned for his 'fly lab'. Morgan wrote 22 books and 370 scientific papers during his eminent career. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933 for the discovery of the role played by chromosomes in heredity. He died on 4 December, 1945.