George Washington Corner (1889-1981)

As the third director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington?s Department of Embryology, George Washington Corner [5] made a number of contributions to the life sciences as well as to administration. Corner was born on 12 December 1889 in Baltimore, Maryland, near the newly established Johns Hopkins University [6]. Although Corner was not exposed to science much in school at a young age, he developed an early appreciation for science through conversations with his father about geography and by looking through the family?s National Geographic magazines.