Tatum
Americannoun
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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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Johnny and Johnathon Tatum will leave on trip to England this summer for international cricket tournament.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Few have been playing the sport in the United States for as long as the Tatum brothers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Walking around the campus at Carson High are the Tatum brothers, Johnny and Johnathon, and they’re potential stars in a surprising sport: cricket.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Less than a year ago, Boston superstar Jayson Tatum suffered basketball’s scariest injury.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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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