Edwin Grant Conklin
Edwin Grant Conklin (born November 24, 1863 in Waldo , Ohio , † November 20, 1952 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American zoologist and developmental biologist .
Life
Conklin studied from 1880 at the Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was assistant to the paleontologist Edward T. Nelson. After graduating with a bachelor's degree, he taught at Rust University in Mississippi for several years before continuing his studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1888 . There he began his interest in developmental and marine biology (at the Woods Hole Laboratory). For his dissertation (1891, published in the Journal of Morphology 1897) he studied cell lines in the development of the embryo of the American slippery slug ( Crepidula ). He then taught at Ohio Wesleyan University, from 1894 at Northwestern University and from 1896 at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1908 he became a professor (and head of the biology faculty) at Princeton University . In 1933 he was retired there.
In addition to crepidula, eggs from tunicates and lancet fish were his experimental animals.
He also wrote popular science books on human evolution and development.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1908) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1936 President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1943 he received the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society (1942 to 1945 and 1948 to 1952 he was its president) and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (1901 to 1950 he was its vice-president). In 1933 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . From 1926 to 1936 he was director of the Bermuda Biological Station and from 1937 to 1945 President of the Science Service.
The Edwin G. Conklin Medal is named in his honor.
Fonts
- The embryology of Crepidula, J. of Morphology, Volume 13, 1897, pp. 1-226
- Heredity and Environment in the Development of Man, Princeton University Press 1915
- Direction of Human Evolution, Scribners 1920, 1922
- A Synopsis of the General Morphology of Animals, Princeton University Press 1927
- Freedom and Responsibility, Houghton Mifflin 1935
- Man: Real and Ideal, Scribners 1943
- Autobiography, in Louis Finkelstein: Thirteen Americans, Harper 1953
Web links
- E. Newton Harvey, Biographical Memoirs National Academy (PDF; 1.87 MB; English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 18, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Conklin, Edwin Grant |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American developmental biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldo , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1952 |
| Place of death | Princeton |