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Edmund Beecher Wilson

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American zoologist, geneticist (1856-1939)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1856 to 1939 · aged 82
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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.

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Image from his textbook The Cell in Development and Inheritance, second edition, 1900Image from his textbook The Cell in Development and Inheritance, second edition, 1900

Awards 6

1936John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
1928Linnean Medal
1925Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
1921Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1914Croonian Medal and Lecture
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Connected to Edmund 6

Davidson BlackAlso won Daniel Giraud Elliot MedalDavid FerrierAlso won Croonian Medal and LectureDonald Lynden-BellAlso won John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of ScienceArthur Smith WoodwardAlso won Linnean MedalFrederick DuCane GodmanAlso won Linnean MedalJohn Krebs, Baron KrebsAlso won Croonian Medal and Lecture

About this person

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1856 to 1939 · aged 82
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17 languages

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