of the 20th century. Personal life On June 4, 1904, Morgan married Lillian Vaughan Sampson (1870–1952), who had entered graduate school in biology at Bryn Mawr the same year Morgan joined the faculty; she put aside her scientific work for 16 years of their marriage when they had four children. Later she contributed significantly to Morgan's Drosophila work. One of their four children (one boy and three girls) was Isabel Morgan (1911–1996) (Marr. Mountain), who became a virologist at Johns Hopkins, specializing in polio research. Morgan was an atheist. See also Mildred Hoge Richards, pupil References Further reading External links including the Nobel Lecture on June 4, 1934 The Relation of Genetics to Physiology and Medicine Thomas Hunt Morgan Biological Sciences Building at University of Kentucky Thomas Hunt Morgan 1866 births 1945 deaths American atheists American geneticists American Nobel laureates California Institute of Technology faculty Columbia University faculty Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society History of genetics Honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Johns Hopkins University alumni Key family of Maryland Members of the Lwów Scientific Society Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Presidents of the United States National Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Copley Medal University of Kentucky alumni Writers from Lexington, Kentucky Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala