Edmund Beecher Wilson
Affiliations: | Columbia University, New York, NY |
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Chromosomes, cell biologyWebsite:
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https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/edmund-beecher-wilson-1856-1939
Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist.
Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, and graduated from Yale in 1878. He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins in 1881.
He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884-85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891.
He spent the balance of his career at Columbia University where he was successively adjunct professor of biology (1891-94), professor of invertebrate zoölogy (1894-97), and professor of zoölogy beginning in 1897.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| William Keith Brooks | grad student | 1881 | Johns Hopkins |
| Theodor Heinrich Boveri | research scientist | 1891 | Universität München |
| Hans Driesch | research scientist | 1891 | Naples Zoological Station |
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Clarence Erwin McClung | research assistant | Columbia (Evolution Tree) | |
| Carl L. Alsberg | research assistant | 1896 | Columbia (Chemistry Tree) |
| Hans Zinsser | research assistant | 1898 | Columbia (ID Tree) |
| Gary Nathan Calkins | grad student | 1898 | Columbia |
| Albert P. Mathews | grad student | 1898 | Columbia (Chemistry Tree) |
| Aaron Franklin Shull | grad student | 1911 | Columbia (Evolution Tree) |
| John Whittemore Gowen | grad student | 1919 | Columbia (FlyTree) |
| Franz Schrader | grad student | 1919 | Columbia |
| Arthur W. Pollister | grad student | 1930 | Columbia (Neurotree) |
| Marcus Singer | grad student | 1938 | MBL |
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