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{{Short description|American biologist and zoologist (1863–1952)}}
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|birth_place       = [[Waldo, Ohio]], US
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|field             = [[Biology]], [[zoology]]
|work_institutions = [[Ohio Wesleyan University]][[Northwestern University]]<br />[[Princeton University]]
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}}{{Eugenics sidebar}}'''Edwin Grant Conklin''' (November 24, 1863 &ndash; November 20, 1952) was an American [[biologist]] and [[zoology|zoologist]].

==Life==

He was born in [[Waldo, Ohio]], the son of A. V. Conklin and Maria Hull.<ref name="royalsoced.org.uk">{{Cite book |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) |author=C D Waterston |author2=A Macmillan Shearer |publisher=[[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] |isbn=090219884X |date=July 2006 |access-date=18 September 2015 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

He was educated at [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] and [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref name = "EGC medal">{{cite web |url = http://www.sdbonline.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=8 |title = Edwin Grant Conklin Medal |publisher = [[Society for Developmental Biology]] |access-date = 2008-01-22 |archive-date = 2012-04-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120414092201/http://www.sdbonline.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=8 |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=CONKLIN, Edwin Grant|magazine=The International Who's Who in the World|year=1912|page=304|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304}}</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>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Edwin+G.+Conklin&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He was elected to the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1908.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edwin G. Conklin |url=https://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20001726.html |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</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>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-09 |title=Edwin Grant Conklin |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/edwin-grant-conklin |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</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>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter C|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterC.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=10 April 2011}}</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.{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}} In 1943, Conklin was awarded the [[John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science|John J. Carty Award]] from the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=Carty>{{cite web|title=John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_carty |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=25 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229180532/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_carty |archive-date=29 December 2010 }}</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==
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== Further reading ==
* Conklin, Edwin (1953). Autobiographical essay in  {{cite book|last1=Finkelstein|first1=Louis|title=Thirteen Americans: Their Spiritual Autobiographies |date=1953|publisher=Institute for Religious and Social Studies|location=New York|pages=47–76}}
*{{cite journal|last=Gehring|first=Walter J|date=Jun 2004|title=Precis of Edwin G. Conklin's JEZ article, "Mosaic Development in Ascidian Eggs"|journal=[[Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology]]|volume=301|issue=6|pages=461–3|issn=1548-8969|pmid=15181639|doi=10.1002/jez.a.87|bibcode=2004JEZ...301..461G }}
*{{cite journal|last=Cooke|first=Kathy J|year=2002|title=Duty or dream? Edwin G. Conklin's critique of eugenics and support for American individualism|journal=[[Journal of the History of Biology]]|volume=35|issue=2|pages=365–84|issn=0022-5010|pmid=12269346|doi=10.1023/A:1016077829496|s2cid=30955041}}
*{{cite journal|last=Reumann|first=M|author2=Fausto-Sterling A|year=2001|title=Notions of heredity in the correspondence of Edwin Grant Conklin|journal=[[Perspect. Biol. Med.]]|volume=44|issue=3|pages=414–25|issn=0031-5982|pmid=11482010|doi=10.1353/pbm.2001.0058|s2cid=19243750}}
*{{cite journal|last=Atkinson|first=J W|year=1985|title=E. G. Conklin on evolution: the popular writings of an embryologist|journal=[[Journal of the History of Biology]]|volume=18|issue=1|pages=31–50|issn=0022-5010|pmid=11611748|doi=10.1007/BF00127956|s2cid=19159164}}
*{{cite journal|last=Fankhauser|first=G|year=1972|title=Memories of great embryologists. Reminiscences of F. Baltzer, H. Spemann, F. R. Lillie, R. G. Harrison, and E. G. Conklin|journal=[[Am. Sci.]]|volume=60|issue=1|pages=46–55|issn=0003-0996|pmid=4550376}}
*{{cite journal|last=KRUMBHAAR|first=E B|date=Feb 1954|title=Memoir of Edwin Grant Conklin (1863-1952)|journal=[[Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia]]|volume=21|issue=3|page=131|issn=0010-1087|pmid=13136421}}
* {{NIE}}
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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*[https://doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1016077829496 Duty or Dream? Edwin G. Conklin's Critique of Eugenics and Support for American Individualism]
*[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/conklin-edwin-g.pdf National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir]
*[http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0322/ Edwin Grant Conklin Papers] from the [[Princeton University Library]]

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