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Frank Rattray Lillie (1870-1947)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Frank R. Lillie was born in Toronto, Canada, on 27 June 1870. His mother was Emily Ann Rattray and his father was George Waddell Little, an…
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Wilhelm Roux (1850-1924)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Wilhelm Roux was a nineteenth-century experimental embryologist who was best known for pioneering Entwicklungsmechanik, or developmental mechanics.…
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Landrum Brewer Shettles (1909-2003)
By: Stephen C. Ruffenach
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Landrum Brewer Shettles is remembered as an important contributor to early in vitro fertilization research in the United States as well as a prolific…
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Georgeanna Seegar Jones (1912-2005)
By: Stephen C. Ruffenach
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Georgeanna Seegar Jones was a reproductive endocrinologist who created one of America' s most successful infertility clinics in West Virginia and…
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Christian Heinrich Pander (1794-1865)
By: Stephen C. Ruffenach
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Christian Heinrich Pander, often remembered as the father of embryology, also explored the fields of osteology, zoology, geology, and anatomy. He was…
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Gustav Jacob Born (1851-1900)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Gustav Jacob Born was an experimental embryologist whose original work with amphibians served as the platform for his wax-plate method of embryo…
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Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1734-1794)
By: Stephen Ruffenach
| Published: Jul 07, 2009
Caspar Friedrich Wolff is most famous for his 1759 doctoral dissertation, Theoria Generationis, in which he described embryonic development in both…
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Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988)
By: Andrew Danielson
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Patrick Christopher Steptoe was a British gynecologist responsible for major advances in gynecology and reproductive technology. Throughout his…
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Charles Bonnet (1720-1793)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Charles Bonnet was a naturalist and philosopher in the mid eighteenth century. His most important contribution to embryology was the discovery of…
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Jacques Loeb (1859-1924)
By: Steve Elliott
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Jacques Loeb experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among…
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