Edwin Grant Conklin (November 24, 1863 – November 20, 1952) was an American biologist and zoologist.

Life

He was born in Waldo, Ohio, the son of A. V. Conklin and Maria Hull.

He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University. He was professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan (1891–94) and professor of zoology at Northwestern University (1894–96), the University of Pennsylvania (1896-1908), and Princeton University (1908-1935). He became coeditor of the Journal of Morphology, The Biological Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Zoology. In 1897, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1908. He was president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1912, became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1936. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science and the Public, from 1937 to 1952.[citation needed] In 1943, Conklin was awarded the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences.

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

Family

He married Belle Adkinson in 1889.

Further reading

  • Conklin, Edwin (1953). Autobiographical essay in Finkelstein, Louis (1953). Thirteen Americans: Their Spiritual Autobiographies. New York: Institute for Religious and Social Studies. pp. 47–76.
  • Gehring, Walter J (Jun 2004). "Precis of Edwin G. Conklin's JEZ article, "Mosaic Development in Ascidian Eggs"". Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology. 301 (6): 461–3. Bibcode:. doi:. ISSN . PMID .
  • Cooke, Kathy J (2002). "Duty or dream? Edwin G. Conklin's critique of eugenics and support for American individualism". Journal of the History of Biology. 35 (2): 365–84. doi:. ISSN . PMID . S2CID .
  • Reumann, M; Fausto-Sterling A (2001). "Notions of heredity in the correspondence of Edwin Grant Conklin". Perspect. Biol. Med. 44 (3): 414–25. doi:. ISSN . PMID . S2CID .
  • Atkinson, J W (1985). "E. G. Conklin on evolution: the popular writings of an embryologist". Journal of the History of Biology. 18 (1): 31–50. doi:. ISSN . PMID . S2CID .
  • Fankhauser, G (1972). "Memories of great embryologists. Reminiscences of F. Baltzer, H. Spemann, F. R. Lillie, R. G. Harrison, and E. G. Conklin". Am. Sci. 60 (1): 46–55. ISSN . PMID .
  • KRUMBHAAR, E B (Feb 1954). "Memoir of Edwin Grant Conklin (1863-1952)". Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. 21 (3): 131. ISSN . PMID .
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}:Missing or empty |title= (help)

Conklin, Edwin Grant(1921). Some biological aspects of immigration |journal = Scribner's Magazine|volume=49|issue=3|pages=352–359

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