Edwin Conklin

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. In 1897, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.^[4] He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1908.^[5] He was president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1912, became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914,^[6] 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.^[7] He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science and the Public, from 1937 to 1952. In 1943, Conklin was awarded the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences.^[8]

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

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

• 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. 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. 35 (2): 365–84. doi:10.1023/A:1016077829496. ISSN 0022-5010. PMID 12269346. S2CID 30955041.
• Reumann, M; Fausto-Sterling A (2001). "Notions of heredity in the correspondence of Edwin Grant Conklin". Perspect. Biol. Med. 44 (3): 414–25. doi:10.1353/pbm.2001.0058. ISSN 0031-5982. PMID 11482010. S2CID 19243750.
• 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:10.1007/BF00127956. ISSN 0022-5010. PMID 11611748. S2CID 19159164.
• 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 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. 21 (3): 131. ISSN 0010-1087. PMID 13136421.
• 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)

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