Gary Beauchamp

Gary Beauchamp

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name = Gary K. Beauchamp


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residence = Pennsylvania
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fields = Biologist, Geneticist
workplaces = Monell Chemical Senses Center
alma_mater = University of Chicago
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known_for = Sweet taste in order Panthera
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awards = Mozell Award, 2000
Sense of Smell Award, 1998
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Gary K. Beauchamp, PhD. is a geneticist and biologist who currently heads Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.

In the 1970s, Dr. Beauchamp conducted a taste test experiment with cats in the order Panthera. This test showed that big cats held no preference to sugars, and thus had an obsolete and non-functioning sweet taste receptor.

In 1990, Dr. Beauchamp took over the as director of Monell after the death of Dr. Morley Kare.

External links

* [http://www.monell.org/Faculty/Beauchamp.htm Dr. Beauchamp's page at Monell's website]


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