Edmund Beecher Wilson

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Columbia University, New York, NY

Area:

Chromosomes, cell biology

Website:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2002/Wilson.html

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Bio:

http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001539.html
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

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

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)
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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