# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-beecher-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:25:58.240Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-beecher-wilson"
name: "Edmund Beecher Wilson"
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description: "Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, The Cell. He discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter."
tagline: "American zoologist, geneticist (1856–1939)"
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birthDate: "1856-10-19"
deathDate: "1939-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump