Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson
Wilson between about 1885 and 1891, at Bryn Mawr College
Born(1856 -10-19)October 19, 1856
DiedMarch 3, 1939(1939-03-03) (aged 82)
Alma materYale University
Johns Hopkins University
Known forXY sex-determination system
SpouseAnne Maynard Kidder[2]
AwardsDaniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1925)
Linnean Medal (1928)
John J. Carty Award (1936)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fieldszoology, genetics, embryology, cytology
InstitutionsWilliams College
MIT
Bryn Mawr College
Columbia University
Image from his textbook The Cell in Development and Inheritance, second edition, 1900

Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939)[3] was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, The Cell.[4][5] He discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter.[6]

  1. ^ Morgan, T. H. (1940). "Edmund Beecher Wilson. 1856–1939". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (8): 123–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1940.0012. S2CID 161395714.
  2. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
  3. ^ "Edmund Beecher Wilson | American biologist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  4. ^ Wilson E.B. 1896; 1900; 1925. The Cell in Development and Inheritance. Macmillan. The third edition ran to 1232 pages, and was still in use after World War II.
  5. ^ Sturtevant A.H. 1965. A history of genetics. Harper & Row, New York, p. 33
  6. ^ Brush, Stephen G. (June 1978). "Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes". Isis. 69 (2): 162–172. doi:10.1086/352001. JSTOR 230427. PMID 389882. S2CID 1919033.