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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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
Few have been playing the sport in the United States for as long as the Tatum brothers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
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
“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
In 1941, three years before Avery’s landmark experiment, two scientists, George Beadle and Edward Tatum, working in a basement tunnel at Stanford University, discovered the missing link between genes and physical traits.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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