Edmund B. Wilson

Standard Name: Wilson, Edmund B.

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1856

American zoologist Edmund B. Wilson was the first to note the X and Y chromosomes in animals.

Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.

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1905

Nettie Stevens , an American geneticist, published the results of her study of chronosomes; she identified the X and Y chromosomes and explained their role in sex-determination.

Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.

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