Edmund Beecher Wilson | |
|---|---|
 Wilson between about 1885 and 1891, at Bryn Mawr College | |
| Born | October 19, 1856 Geneva, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | March 3, 1939 (aged 82) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University Johns Hopkins University |
| Known for | XY sex-determination system |
| Spouse | Anne Maynard Kidder[2] |
| Awards | Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1925) Linnean Medal (1928) John J. Carty Award (1936) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | zoology, genetics, embryology, cytology |
| Institutions | Williams College MIT Bryn Mawr College Columbia University |
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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Edmund Beecher Wilson | American biologist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sturtevant A.H. 1965. A history of genetics. Harper & Row, New York, p. 33
- ^ 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.