Tatum
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Art, 1910–56, U.S. jazz pianist.
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Edward Lawrie 1909–75, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1958.
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Art, full name Arthur Tatum. 1910–56, US jazz pianist
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Edward Lawrie. 1909–75, US biochemist, who showed how genes regulate biochemical processes in an organism and demonstrated that bacteria reproduce sexually; Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1958) with Beadle and Lederberg
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Murrieta Mesa 13, Great Oak 0: Tatum Wolff hit a three-run home run and also threw five shutout innings with nine strikeouts and no walks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
O’Malley convinced Tatum to have the operation right there and then instead of waiting even one more day—a decision that is already rewriting basketball history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
“A lot of things had to go right,” Tatum said after he scored 25 points in Boston’s Game 1 win, “to even have the opportunity to come back and play.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
Jayson Tatum scored 25 points with 11 rebounds and seven assists - and Jaylen Brown added 26 points - as the second-seeded Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 123-91.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Beadle and Tatum shared a Nobel Prize in 1958 for their discovery, but the Beadle/Tatum experiment raised a crucial question that remained unanswered: How did a gene “encode” information to build a protein?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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