Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson | |
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Wilson between about 1885 and 1891, at Bryn Mawr College | |
| Born | October 19, 1856 Geneva, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | March 3, 1939 (aged 82) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University Johns Hopkins University |
| Known for | Creating the XY sex-determination system |
| Spouse | Anne Maynard Kidder |
| Awards | Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1925) Linnean Medal (1928) John J. Carty Award (1936) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | zoology, genetics, embryology, cytology |
| Institutions | Williams College MIT Bryn Mawr College Columbia University |
| Notable students | Walter Sutton |
Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, The Cell. He discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter.