Edwin Conklin

Edwin Conklin
Edwin Conklin
Born	Edwin Grant Conklin November 24, 1863 Waldo Ohio
Died	November 20, 1952 (aged 88)
Nationality	U.S.
Fields	biologist zoologist
Institutions	Ohio Wesleyan UniversityNorthwestern University Princeton University
Alma mater	Ohio Wesleyan University Johns Hopkins University
Notable awards	John J. Carty Award (1943)

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.^[1]

He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University.^[2][3] 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. He was president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1912 and 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.^[4] He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science and the Public, from 1937-1952. In 1943 Conklin was awarded the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences.^[5]

In 1995 the Society for Developmental Biology inaugurated the Edwin Grant Conklin Medal in his honor.^[2]

Family

He married Belle Adkinson (d.1940) in 1889.^[1]

References

1. https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
2. "Edwin Grant Conklin Medal". Society for Developmental Biology.
3. "CONKLIN, Edwin Grant". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 304.
4. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter C" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
5. "John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 February 2011.

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"". J. Exp. Zoolog. Part a Comp. Exp. Biol. (United States) 301 (6): 461–3. doi:10.1002/jez.a.87. ISSN 1548-8969. PMID 15181639.
• 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 (Netherlands) 35 (2): 365–84. doi:10.1023/A:1016077829496. ISSN 0022-5010. PMID 12269346.
• Reumann, M; Fausto-Sterling A (2001). "Notions of heredity in the correspondence of Edwin Grant Conklin". Perspect. Biol. Med. (United States) 44 (3): 414–25. ISSN 0031-5982. PMID 11482010.
• Atkinson, J W (1985). "E. G. Conklin on evolution: the popular writings of an embryologist". Journal of the History of Biology (Netherlands) 18 (1): 31–50. doi:10.1007/BF00127956. ISSN 0022-5010. PMID 11611748.
• 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. (UNITED STATES) 60 (1): 46–55. ISSN 0003-0996. PMID 4550376.
• KRUMBHAAR, E B (Feb 1954). "Memoir of Edwin Grant Conklin (1863-1952)". Transactions & studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Not Available) 21 (3): 131. ISSN 0010-1087. PMID 13136421.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

• Duty or Dream? Edwin G. Conklin's Critique of Eugenics and Support for American Individualism
• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
• Edwin Grant Conklin Papers from the Princeton University Library