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Edmund Beecher Wilson (19 October 1856 – 3 March 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, ''The Cell''.〔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, N.Y. p33〕 == Career == Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, and graduated from Yale in 1878. He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins in 1881. He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883–84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884–85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891. He spent the balance of his career at Columbia University where he was successively adjunct professor of biology (1891–94), professor of invertebrate zoology (1894–1897), and professor of zoology (from 1897). Wilson is credited as America's first cell biologist. In 1898 he used the similarity in embryos to describe phylogenetic relationships. By observing spiral cleavage in molluscs, flatworms and annelids he concluded that the same organs came from the same group of cells and concluded that all these organisms must have a common ancestor. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1902.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterW.pdf )〕 He also discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905—that males have XY and females XX sex chromosomes. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year. In 1907, he described, for the first time, the additional or supernumerary chromosomes, now called B-chromosomes. The same year he became foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Wilson published many papers on embryology, and served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1913. For his volume, ''The Cell in Development and Inheritance'', Wilson was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1925. The American Society for Cell Biology annually awards the E. B. Wilson Medal in his honor.〔() E. B. Wilson award page at ASCB.org〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmund Beecher Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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