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Beatrice Mintz (1922–2022)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Jan 21, 2009
Beatrice Mintz is a brilliant researcher who has developed techniques essential for many aspects of research on mouse development. She produced the…
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Brian K. Hall (1941- )
By: Editorial Team, EP
| Published: Jul 07, 2009
Brian Hall is the son of Doris Garrad and Harry Hall, and was born in Port Kembla, NSW Australia, on 28 October 1941. He attended the University of…
Neural CrestBiography
Robert William Briggs (1911-1983)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Robert William Briggs was a prolific developmental biologist. However, he is most identified with the first successful cloning of a frog by nuclear…
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Wilhelm Roux (1850-1924)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Wilhelm Roux was a nineteenth-century experimental embryologist who was best known for pioneering Entwicklungsmechanik, or developmental mechanics.…
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Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Viktor Hamburger was an embryologist who focused on neural development. His scientific career stretched from the early 1920s as a student of Hans…
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Hans Spemann (1869-1941)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 15, 2010
Hans Spemann was an experimental embryologist best known for his transplantation studies and as the originator of the "organizer" concept. One of his…
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Johannes Holtfreter (1901-1992)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Feb 29, 2008
Johannes Holtfreter made important discoveries about the properties of the organizer discovered by Hans Spemann. Although he spent much time away…
Organizers, EmbryonicBiographyFrogs
Charles Manning Child (1869-1954)
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Oct 23, 2007
Born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on 2 February 1869, Charles Manning Child was the only surviving child of Mary Elizabeth and Charles Chauncey Child, a…
Polarity (Biology)Life cycles (Biology)MetabolismPhysiologyBiography
Thomas Joseph King Jr. (1921-2000)
By: Sean Cohmer
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
Thomas Joseph King Jr. was a developmental biologist who, with fellow scientist Robert Briggs, pioneered a method of transplanting nuclei from…
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Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1734-1794)
By: Stephen Ruffenach
| Published: Jul 07, 2009
Caspar Friedrich Wolff is most famous for his 1759 doctoral dissertation, Theoria Generationis, in which he described embryonic development in both…
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