Conklin, Edwin Grant

Related Category: Zoology: Biographies

1863–1952, American zoologist, b. Waldo, Ohio, B.S. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1886, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1891. From 1908 he taught and conducted research at Princeton, principally in cytology (particularly cell division), embryology, and heredity. His chief interest was evolution. He wrote Heredity and Environment (1915) and many other works, and he was influential in organizing the marine biology laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass.