Edwin Conklin
Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientistTemplate:Eugenics sidebarEdwin 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.<ref name="royalsoced.org.uk">Template:Cite book</ref>
He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University.<ref name = "EGC medal">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1908.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1912, became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name=AAAS>Template:Cite web</ref> He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science and the Public, from 1937 to 1952.Template:Citation needed In 1943, Conklin was awarded the John J. Carty Award from the National Academy of Sciences.<ref name=Carty>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1995, the Society for Developmental Biology inaugurated the Edwin Grant Conklin Medal in his honor.<ref name = "EGC medal"/>
Family
He married Belle Adkinson in 1889.<ref name="royalsoced.org.uk"/>
References
Further reading
- Conklin, Edwin (1953). Autobiographical essay in Template:Cite book
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Conklin, Edwin Grant(1921). Some biological aspects of immigration |journal = Scribner's Magazine|volume=49|issue=3|pages=352–359
External links
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- 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
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- 1863 births
- 1952 deaths
- American zoologists
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- Northwestern University faculty
- Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
- Ohio Wesleyan University faculty
- People from Marion County, Ohio
- Princeton University faculty
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Marine zoologists
- American marine biologists
- Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Presidents of the American Society of Naturalists
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- American Eugenics Society members