Walter Sutton
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Walter Stanborough Sutton (April 5, 1877 - November 10, 1916) was an American biologist. He discovered that an organism has half the amount of chromosomes in sex cells than it has in its body cells.
Sutton was born in Utica, New York and raised in Russell, Kansas. He got Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Kansas. Sutton then went to Columbia University and got his doctorate in medicine in 1907.