Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson

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American geneticist (1856–1939)

About Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson 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.

Notable works:

The cell in development and inheritance

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