Edwin Conklin

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birth_date = November 24 1863
birth_place = Waldo Ohio
death_date = November 20 1952
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field = biologist zoologist
work_institutions = Northwestern University
alma_mater = Ohio Wesleyan University Johns Hopkins University
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Edwin Grant Conklin (November 24 1863 – November 20 1952) was a U.S. biologist and zoologist, born at Waldo Ohio, and educated at Ohio Wesleyan and Johns Hopkins universities.cite web |url = http://www.sdbonline.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=8 |title = Edwin Grant Conklin Medal |publisher = Society for Developmental Biology] He was professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan (1891-94) and professor of zoölogy at Northwestern (1894-96), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1908), and Princeton (after 1908). He became coeditor of the "Journal of Morphology", the "Biological Bulletin", and the "Journal of Experimental Zoölogy". He was president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1912 and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1936.

In 1995 the Society for Developmental Biology inaugurated the Edwin Grant Conklin Medal in his honor.

Citations

*"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." [ [http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/3154 The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. by Edwin Conkli... ] ]

External links

* [http://www.springerlink.com/content/r0237054214u6761/ Duty or Dream? Edwin G. Conklin's Critique of Eugenics and Support for American Individualism]

References

*cite journal
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last=Gehring
first=Walter J
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year=2004|month=Jun.
title=Precis of Edwin G. Conklin's JEZ article, "Mosaic Development in Ascidian Eggs"
journal=J. Exp. Zoolog. Part A Comp. Exp. Biol.
volume=301
issue=6
pages=461-3
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doi = 10.1002/jez.a.87
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*cite journal
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last=Cooke
first=Kathy J
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year=2002|month=
title=Duty or dream? Edwin G. Conklin's critique of eugenics and support for American individualism
journal=Journal of the history of biology
volume=35
issue=2
pages=365-84
publisher= |location = Netherlands| issn = 0022-5010| pmid = 12269346
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last=Reumann
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coauthors=Fausto-Sterling A
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title=Notions of heredity in the correspondence of Edwin Grant Conklin
journal=Perspect. Biol. Med.
volume=44
issue=3
pages=414-25
publisher= |location = United States| issn = 0031-5982| pmid = 11482010
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last=Atkinson
first=J W
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year=1985|month=
title=E. G. Conklin on evolution: the popular writings of an embryologist
journal=Journal of the history of biology
volume=18
issue=1
pages=31-50
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title=Memories of great embryologists. Reminiscences of F. Baltzer, H. Spemann, F. R. Lillie, R. G. Harrison, and E. G. Conklin
journal=Am. Sci.
volume=60
issue=1
pages=46-55
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last=KRUMBHAAR
first=E B
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year=1954|month=Feb.
title=Memoir of Edwin Grant Conklin (1863-1952)
journal=Transactions & studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
volume=21
issue=3
pages=131
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