Edmund Beecher Wilson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 85 years ago |
| Date of birth | October 19,1856 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Geneva |
| Illinois | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | March 3,1939 |
| Died | New York City |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Known for | XY sex-determination system |
| Job | Geneticist |
| Science writer | |
| Education | Yale University |
| Antioch College | |
| Johns Hopkins University | |
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| ID | 547240 |
Edmund Beecher Wilson Life story
Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell. He and Nettie Maria Stevens were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex, but they conducted their research independently of each other.
