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George Beadle’s Nobel Journey from Wahoo Farm
George Beadle’s path from farm boy to Nobel Prize winner starts in tiny Wahoo, Nebraska. After his mom died when he was just four, he worked the family’s 40-acre farm while going to school.
His dad wanted him to be a farmer, but a sharp-eyed teacher saw his smarts and pushed him toward college instead.
At Stanford years later, Beadle and his partner Edward Tatum did something wild – they used common bread mold to prove that each gene makes just one enzyme…