Edmund B. Wilson (1856-1939)

American cytologist. Studied the role of chromosomes in sex determination. Early advocate of the chromosomal theory of inheritance.

Wilson. From Baatz, p. 182.

Career:

Ph.D. student, Johns Hopkins University
Professor, Bryn Mawr, ?-1891
Professor, Columbia University, 1891-?
Summer research, Woods Hole, 1890's

Studied under:

W. K. Brooks

Students:

H. J. Muller (Columbia)
N. M. Stevens (Bryn Mawr)
Walter S. Sutton (Columbia)

Colleagues:

T. H. Morgan (Bryn Mawr, Columbia)

Key publications:

The Cell in Development and Inheritance (1898)

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