Edouard Van Beneden
Belgian biologist (1846-1910) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden (5 March 1846 in Leuven – 28 April 1910 in Liège) was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist.[1][2] He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. In this work he discovered how chromosomes organized meiosis (the production of gametes).
Edouard Van Beneden | |
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Born | 5 March 1846 |
Died | 28 April 1910 (1910-04-29) (aged 64) |
Citizenship | Belgian |
Known for | meiosis |
Scientific career | |
Fields | embryologist |
Institutions | University of Liège |
He is son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, a zoologist and paleontologist.
Van Beneden elucidated, together with Walther Flemming and Eduard Strasburger, the essential facts of mitosis, where, in contrast to meiosis, there is a qualitative and quantitative equality of chromosome distribution to daughter cells. (See karyotype).[3] [4]