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Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of…
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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…
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Jane Marion Oppenheimer (1911-1966)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
Jane Marion Oppenheimer, embryologist and historian of science and medicine, was born on 19 September 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Sylvia…
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Girolamo Fabrici (1537-1619)
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 26, 2008
Girolamo Fabrici, known as Hieronymus Fabricius in Latin, was given the surname Aquapendente from the city where he was born, near Orvieto, Italy.…
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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…
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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…
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Franklin Paine Mall (1862-1917)
By: Kimberly A. Buettner
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
Franklin Paine Mall was born into a farming family in Belle Plaine, Iowa, on 28 September 1862. While he attended a local academy, an influential…
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Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jun 02, 2010
Gavin de Beer was an English zoologist known for his contributions to evolution and embryology, in particular for showing the inadequacy of the germ…
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Charles Otis Whitman (1842-1910)
By: D. Brian Schuermann
| Published: Jan 21, 2009
Charles Otis Whitman was an extremely curious and driven researcher who was not content to limit himself to one field of expertise. Among the fields…
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Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656-1725)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Sep 26, 2008
Nicolaas Hartsoeker, a Dutch astronomer, optics manufacturer, and naturalist, was born 26 March 1656 in Gouda, Netherlands, and died 10 December 1725…
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