Edouard Van Beneden

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birth_date = 5 March, 1846
birth_place = Leuven
death_date = 28 April, 1910
death_place = Liège
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nationality = Belgian
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field = embryologist
work_institutions = University of Liège
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known_for = meiosis
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Edouard Van Beneden (5 March, 1846, Leuven– 28 April, 1910, Liège), son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège; he has been at the basis of the genetic studies of the 20th century, thanks to his works on a parasite of the horse, that made him discover how chromosomes combined during reproduction (meiosis).

Together with Walther Flemming, Eduard Strasburger, and others, he elucidated the essential facts of cell division and stressed the importance of the qualitative and quantitative equality of chromosome distribution to daughter cells.

References

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year=1992
month=Mar
title=The discovery of meiosis by E. Van Beneden, a breakthrough in the morphological phase of heredity
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volume=36
issue=1
pages=9–15
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year=1986
month=Oct
title= [Edouard Van Beneden, biologist and stoic]
journal=Revue médicale de Liège
volume=41
issue=20
pages=779–85
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