Edmund Beecher Wilson, Class of '81
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Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1939)
Edmund Beecher Wilson [4] contributed to cell biology, the study of cells, in the US during the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. His three editions of The Cell in Development and Inheritance [5] (or Heredity [6]) in 1896, 1900, and 1925 introduced generations of students to cell biology. In The Cell, Wilson described the evidence and theories of his time about...
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Edmund Beecher Wilson [5] experimented with Amphioxus (Branchiostoma [6]) embryos in 1892 to identify what caused their cells to differentiate into new types of cells during the process of development. Wilson shook apart the cells at early stages of embryonic development, and he observed the development of the isolated cells. He observed that in the normal development of Amphioxus, all three ma...
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Edmund Beecher Wilson [5] in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book presents photographs by photographer Edward Leaming that capture stages of fertilization [6], the fusion of sperm [7] and egg [8] and early development of sea urchin [9] (Toxopneustes variegatus) ova, or egg [8] cell. Prior to An Atlas, no one photog...
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Edmund B. Wilson performed experiments to show where germinal matter was located in molluscs. At Columbia University [4] in New York City, New York, Wilson studied what causes cells to differentiate during development. In 1904 he conducted his experiments on molluscs, and he modified the theory about the location of germinal matter in the succeeding years. ...
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R ecently, I stumbled on a biography of Edmund Wilson. An American writer, intellect and social critic, Wilson was known for his publications, including Axel’s Castle and Patriotic Gore, as well as his work with Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Although he came from a completely different era and discipline, I think his saying that “no two persons ever read the same book” provides valuable insig...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Zoologist
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0003-1569
DOI: 10.1093/icb/27.3.785