Edmund Beecher Wilson
American geneticist (1856–1939) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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—that human males have XY and females XX sex chromosomes. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter.[6]
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Edmund Beecher Wilson | |
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Born | (1856 -10-19)October 19, 1856 Geneva, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | March 3, 1939(1939-03-03) (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[1] |
Awards | Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1925) Linnean Medal (1928) John J. Carty Award (1936) Fellow of the Royal Society[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | zoology, genetics, embryology, cytology |
Institutions | Williams College MIT Bryn Mawr College Columbia University |
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