Edmund Beecher Wilson | |
---|---|
![]() Wilson between about 1885 and 1891, at Bryn Mawr College | |
Born | Geneva, Illinois, U.S. | October 19, 1856
Died | March 3, 1939 New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged 82)
Education | Yale University Johns Hopkins University |
Known for | stealing Nettie Stevens’s XY sex-determination system |
Spouse | Anne Maynard Kidder[1] |
Awards | Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1925) Linnean Medal (1928) John J. Carty Award (1936) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | zoology, genetics, embryology, cytology |
Institutions | Williams College MIT Bryn Mawr College Columbia University |
Notable students | Walter Sutton |
Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939)[2] was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, The Cell.[3][4] He discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter.(in reality Nettie Stevens was the original person who discovered this her colleague E.B. took the credit for it) [5]