Calvin Bridges
Calvin Blackman Bridges (January 11th 1889 - December 27th 1938) was a known American scientist for his work in the field of the Génétique. It belonged to the team of the Nobel Prize of medicine Thomas Hunt Morgan with the Université Columbia, with Alfred Sturtevant and Hermann Joseph Muller.
Bridges was born on January 11th, 1889 with Schuyler Falls in the state from New York.
Its work on the characters related to the sex of the fly Drosophile ( Drosophila melanogaster or fruit fly) made emerge the idea according to which the Chromosome S contain Gène S. This assumption is checked later by Nettie Maria Stephens following the examination of the chromosomes of the fruit fly.
The most known contribution of Bridges as a Drosophiliste relates to the observation and the description of the chromosomes polytenes contained in the cell S of the salivary glands of the Larve S.
He died on December 27th, 1938 with Los Angeles. According to the sources, are death would be due to the Syphilis or an cardiac arrest following an infection of the heart.
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