Whose experiments first showed that mutations in fruit flies could be inherited?

Thomas Hunt Morgan’s famous fruit-fly experiments at Columbia University in the early 1900s demonstrated that inherited traits could be tracked through specific chromosomes. His white-eyed fly studies showed sex-linked inheritance and helped establish the chromosome theory of heredity. Morgan’s work earned the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster became one of the most important model organisms in biology.