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Warren Harmon Lewis (1870-1964)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
As one of the first to work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology, Warren Harmon Lewis made a number of contributions to…
PeopleBiographyEducationCarnegie Institution of Washington
Frank Rattray Lillie (1870-1947)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Frank R. Lillie was born in Toronto, Canada, on 27 June 1870. His mother was Emily Ann Rattray and his father was George Waddell Little, an…
PeopleLillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947BiographyLaboratoriesCell Lineage
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Sep 25, 2007
Although best known for his work with the fruit fly, for which he earned a Nobel Prize and the title "The Father of Genetics," Thomas Hunt Morgan's…
PeopleMorgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945Genetics, ExperimentalNobel Prize winnersDrosophila melanogaster
George Linius Streeter (1873-1948)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
George Linius Streeter was born on 12 January 1873 in Johnstown, New York, to Hannah Green Anthony and George Austin Streeter. He completed his…
PeopleBiographyHuman Development
Osborne Overton Heard (1890-1983)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
Osborne O. Heard was a noted Carnegie embryological model maker for the Department of Embryology at The Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW),…
PeopleCarnegie Institution of WashingtonBiographyModels
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
By: Federica Turriziani Colonna
| Published: Dec 22, 2014
The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter…
OrganizationStazione zoologica di NapoliDevelopmental BiologyZoologyEmbryology
Franz Julius Keibel (1861-1929)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: Jun 21, 2014
Franz Keibel studied the embryos of humans and other animals in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. He lived and worked in several different…
Embryology
On the Generation of Animals, by Aristotle
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Oct 02, 2010
Aristotle's On the Generation of Animals is referred to in Latin as De Generatione animalium. As with many of Aristotle's writings, the exact date of…
LiteratureReproductionPublicationsphilosophy
Ernst Haeckel's Biogenetic Law (1866)
By: M. Elizabeth Barnes
| Published: May 03, 2014
The biogenetic law is a theory of development and evolution proposed by Ernst Haeckel in Germany in the 1860s. It is one of several recapitulation…
EvolutionDevelopmental BiologyEmbryologyAnatomy, Comparative
Mary Warnock (1924–2019 )
By: Jonathon J. LaTourelle
| Published: Sep 29, 2014
Baroness Mary Warnock of Weeke, a philosopher and crossbench member and Life Peer of the United Kingdom's House of Lords, participated in several…
Fertilization in vitro, HumanFertilization in vitro, Human--Law and legislationFertilization in vitro, Human--Moral and ethical aspectsWarnock, Mary, 1808-1900Reproductive technology