Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson
	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.
Alma mater	Yale University; Johns Hopkins University
Known for	XY sex-determination system
Spouse	Anne Maynard Kidder
Awards	Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1925); Linnean Medal (1928); John J. Carty Award (1936); Fellow of the Royal Society
	Scientific career
Fields	zoology, genetics, embryology, cytology
Institutions	Williams College; MIT; Bryn Mawr College; Columbia University

Image from his textbook *The Cell in Development and Inheritance*, second edition, 1900

Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939)^[3] was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, The Cell.^[4]^[5] He discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905—that human males have XY and females XX sex chromosomes. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter.^[6]

^ Morgan, T. H. (1940). "Edmund Beecher Wilson. 1856–1939". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (8): 123–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1940.0012. S2CID 161395714.
^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
^ "Edmund Beecher Wilson | American biologist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
^ Wilson E.B. 1896; 1900; 1925. The Cell in Development and Inheritance. Macmillan. The third edition ran to 1232 pages, and was still in use after World War II.
^ Sturtevant A.H. 1965. A history of genetics. Harper & Row, New York, p. 33
^ Brush, Stephen G. (June 1978). "Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes". Isis. 69 (2): 162–172. doi:10.1086/352001. JSTOR 230427. PMID 389882. S2CID 1919033.

[frs-1] Morgan, T. H. (1940). "Edmund Beecher Wilson. 1856–1939". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (8): 123–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1940.0012. S2CID 161395714.

[2] Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-07-16.

[3] "Edmund Beecher Wilson | American biologist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-11-20.

[4] Wilson E.B. 1896; 1900; 1925. The Cell in Development and Inheritance. Macmillan. The third edition ran to 1232 pages, and was still in use after World War II.

[5] Sturtevant A.H. 1965. A history of genetics. Harper & Row, New York, p. 33

[JSTOR-6] Brush, Stephen G. (June 1978). "Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes". Isis. 69 (2): 162–172. doi:10.1086/352001. JSTOR 230427. PMID 389882. S2CID 1919033.

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Edmund Beecher Wilson
Wilson between about 1885 and 1891, at Bryn Mawr College
Born	(1856 -10-19)October 19, 1856 Geneva, Illinois, U.S.
Died	March 3, 1939(1939-03-03) (aged 82) New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University Johns Hopkins University
Known for	XY sex-determination system
Spouse	Anne Maynard Kidder^[2]
Awards	Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1925) Linnean Medal (1928) John J. Carty Award (1936) Fellow of the Royal Society^[1]
Scientific career
Fields	zoology, genetics, embryology, cytology
Institutions	Williams College MIT Bryn Mawr College Columbia University