BIOLOGIST

Edmund Beecher Wilson

1856 - 1939

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Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Beecher Wilson has received more than 132,750 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Edmund Beecher Wilson is the 632nd most popular biologist, the 5,670th most popular biography from United States and the 88th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 632 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean Victoir Audouin, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Émile Duclaux, Adam Lonicer, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, and René Maire. After him are Ludwik Hirszfeld, Adrien René Franchet, Nikolay Drozdov, Volcher Coiter, Anna Russell, and Michel Félix Dunal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 94. Before him are Elbert Hubbard, Apollinary Vasnetsov, James Buchanan Duke, Ernesto Schiaparelli, Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, and Władysław Ślewiński. After him are Gabrielle Réjane, Paul von Jankó, Alberto Palacio, Jinzō Matsumura, Willem Kes, and Wilhelm Geiger. Among people deceased in 1939, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 111. Before him are Walery Sławek, Aleksander Brückner, Henri Jaspar, Ursula Ledóchowska, Olav Duun, and Vladislav Khodasevich. After him are Frank Watson Dyson, Eulalio Gutiérrez, Charles P. Dixon, Władysław Raginis, Alberto Palacio, and Alfredo Panzini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 5,670 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray Barretto (1929), JoBeth Williams (1948), Gavin MacLeod (1931), George Saling (1909), Harry Morgan (1915), and Carl Lumbly (1951). After him are Kenneth Noland (1924), Anita Borg (1949), Forrest Smithson (1884), Henry Knox (1750), Paul Sweezy (1910), and Roger Sherman (1721).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Edmund Beecher Wilson ranks 88. Before him are Harold E. Varmus (1939), Garrett Hardin (1915), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Jack Horner (1946), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), and George C. Williams (1926). After him are Charles David Keeling (1928), John du Pont (1938), Mary-Claire King (1946), Walter Sutton (1877), David Starr Jordan (1851), and Samuel Garman (1843).

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