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Edmund Beecher Wilson

1856 - 1939

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Beecher Wilson is the 736th most popular biologist (down from 632nd in 2019), the 6,288th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,669th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 736 out of 1,097. Before him are Amalie Dietrich, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Thomas Bell, William Roxburgh, Victor Motschulsky, and Bunzō Hayata. After him are Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, Wilhelm Hemprich, Hugo von Mohl, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sabin Berthelot, and Johann Friedrich Adam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 95. Before him are Carl Peters, Matilde Serao, Apollinary Vasnetsov, Władysław Ślewiński, Aleksander Brückner, and Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper. After him are Ernesto Schiaparelli, Helene von Druskowitz, Louis Brandeis, Alberto Palacio, Paul von Jankó, and Andrew Watson. Among people deceased in 1939, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 112. Before him are Enrique Fernández Arbós, Henri Jaspar, Wojciech Korfanty, Otto Siffling, Aleksander Brückner, and Eulalio Gutiérrez. After him are Polina Osipenko, Olav Duun, Alberto Palacio, Gwen John, Halil Pasha, and Vladislav Khodasevich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 6,289 out of 20,380. Before him are Shawn Crahan (1969), Rance Howard (1928), Marilynne Robinson (1943), Ed Wynn (1886), Mike Bloomfield (1943), and Richard H. Truly (1937). After him are Vivien Thomas (1910), Hal B. Wallis (1898), Genevieve Cortese (1981), Deirdre McCloskey (1942), Ronnie Radke (1983), and Don Bragg (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 99. Before him are Albert Charles Smith (1906), Alfred Romer (1894), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), Alexander Wetmore (1886), Alice Hamilton (1869), and Thomas Say (1787). After him are Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), Richard Lewontin (1929), Francis Collins (1950), James L. Peters (1889), and Garrett Hardin (1915).

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