Editing Thomas Hunt Morgan (section)

==Awards and honors==
Morgan left an important legacy in genetics. Some of Morgan's students from Columbia and Caltech went on to win their own Nobel Prizes, including [[George Wells Beadle]] and [[Hermann Joseph Muller]].<!--there is seven--> Nobel prize winner [[Eric Kandel]] has written of Morgan, "Much as Darwin's insights into the evolution of animal species first gave coherence to nineteenth-century biology as a descriptive science, Morgan's findings about genes and their location on chromosomes helped transform biology into an experimental science."<ref>Kandel, Eric. 1999. [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Legacies/Morgan/ "Genes, Chromosomes, and the Origins of Modern Biology"], ''Columbia Magazine''</ref>
* Johns Hopkins awarded Morgan an honorary LL.D. and the University of Kentucky awarded him an honorary Ph.D.
* He was elected [[Member of the National Academy of Sciences]] in 1909.<ref name=nasmember>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001550.html|title=Thomas Morgan|website=Nasonline.org|access-date=28 April 2019}}</ref>
* He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1915.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Thomas+H.+Morgan&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
* He was a member of the [[American Association for Anatomy]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The American Association of Anatomists, 1888-1987: essays on the history of anatomy in America and a report on the membership: past and present |date=1987 |publisher=Williams & Wilkins |isbn=978-0-683-06800-9 |editor-last=Pauly |editor-first=John Edward |location=Baltimore |editor-last2=Basmajian |editor-first2=John V. |editor-last3=Christensen |editor-first3=A. Kent |editor-last4=Jollie |editor-first4=William P. |editor-last5=Kelly |editor-first5=Douglas E.}}</ref>
* He was elected a [[Foreign Member of the Royal Society]] (ForMemRS) in 1919<ref name="Fisher"/>
* In 1924 Morgan received the [[Darwin Medal]].
* He was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1928.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-09 |title=Thomas Hunt Morgan |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/thomas-hunt-morgan |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref>
* The Thomas Hunt Morgan School of Biological Sciences at the University of Kentucky is named for him.
* The [[Genetics Society of America]] annually awards the [[Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal]], named in his honor, to one of its members who has made a significant contribution to the science of genetics.
* Thomas Hunt Morgan's discovery was illustrated on a 1989 stamp issued in Sweden, showing the discoveries of eight Nobel Prize-winning geneticists.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}
* A junior high school in the [[Shoreline School District]] was named for Morgan until 1986.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 10, 2020 |title=Goodbye to Thomas Hunt Morgan Junior High |url=https://www.shorelineareanews.com/2020/06/goodbye-to-thomas-hunt-morgan-junior.html |website=Shoreline Area News}}</ref>