Edmund B. Wilson

Illustration from Wilson's textbook The Cell in Development and Inheritance , 2nd edition, 1900. Cells in the skin of a transverse newt are shown

Edmund Beecher Wilson (born October 19, 1856 in Geneva , Illinois , † March 3, 1939 in New York City ) was an American zoologist and geneticist .

Wilson is considered the first major cell biologist in the USA. In 1898 he concluded from the similarity of the embryonic development in molluscs , flatworms and annelid worms on a phylogenetic relationship. In 1905 he described along with Nettie Stevens first time the determination of sex by sex chromosomes . In 1907 he was the first to describe what is now called the B chromosomes .

In 1899 Wilson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , in 1902 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1910 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1923 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Since 1924 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences and an external member since 1928 . In 1925 he received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and in 1936 the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences. In his honor, awarded by the American Society for Cell Biology that EB Wilson Medal as their highest scientific honor .

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Commons : Edmund Beecher Wilson - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

^ Member entry by Edmund B. Wilson at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 9, 2016.
^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 24, 2020 .
^ List of former members since 1666: Letter W. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 16, 2020 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Wilson, Edmund B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wilson, Edmund Beecher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American geneticist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 19, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Geneva , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 1939
Place of death	New York City