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Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Sir Francis Galton was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of statistics, experimental psychology and biometry. In the history of biology, Galton is widely regarded as the originator of the early twentieth century eugenics movement. Galton published influential writings on nature versus nurture in human personality traits, developed a family study method to identify possible inherited traits, and devised laws of genetic inheritance prior to the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's work.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
Francis H. Herrick
Inscriptions on image: Front, top: “1166”, bottom: “Francis H. Herrick / Biology - Western Reserve University / July / 1925”
Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Francis H. Herrick
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Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Francis O. Schmitt
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Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Francis Leovey
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Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882)
During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of evolutionary embryology, especially through his comparative embryological approach to uncovering ancestral relationships between groups. As developmental biologist and historian Brian Hall has observed, the field of evolutionary embryology in the nineteenth century was the historical ancestor of modern-day evolutionary developmental biology.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Francis Sellers Collins (1950- )
Francis Sellers Collins helped lead the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, which helped describe the DNA sequence of the human genome by 2001, and he helped develop technologies used in molecular genetics while working in the US in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He directed the US National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR), which became the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), located in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1993 to 2008.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Andrew Francis Dixon (1868-1936)
Andrew Francis Dixon studied human anatomy and egg cells at the turn of the twentieth century in Ireland and Great Britain. Dixon studied the sensory and motor nervous system of the face, the cancellous bone tissue of the femur, supernumerary kidneys, and the urogenital system. In 1927 Dixon described a mature human ovarian follicle. This follicle, Dixon noted, contained an immature human egg cell (oocyte) with a visible first polar body and the beginnings of the second polar body.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Francis Ernest Lloyd
Inscriptions on image: Front, top: “977”, bottom: autograph “F. Lloyd”, “McGill / Botany / 1924”
Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Albert Francis Blakeslee
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Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004)
Francis Harry Compton Crick, who co-discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 in Cambridge, England, also developed The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, and further clarified the relationship between nucleotides and protein synthesis. Crick received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine that he shared with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for their discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Mitochondria
All cells that have a nucleus, including plant, animal, fungal cells, and most single-celled protists, also have mitochondria. Mitochondria are particles called organelles found outside the nucleus in a cell's cytoplasm. The main function of mitochondria is to supply energy to the cell, and therefore to the organism. The theory for how mitochondria evolved, proposed by Lynn Margulis in the twentieth century, is that they were once free-living organisms.
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American Eugenics Society (1926-1972)
The American Eugenics Society (AES) was established in the US by
Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, Henry Crampton, Irving Fisher, and
Henry F. Osborn in 1926 to promote eugenics education programs for
the US public. The AES described eugenics as the study of improving
the genetic composition of humans through controlled reproduction of
different races and classes of people. The AES aided smaller eugenic
efforts such as the Galton Society in New York, New York, and the
Format: Articles
Subject: Organizations
William P. Procter at Great Harbor, Woods Hole
William P. Procter and skiff in Great Harbor, Woods Hole
Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Spencer Baird's Fisheries Building
Woods Hole Cut. Spencer Baird's Fisheries Building on right
Format: Photographs
Subject: Places, Organizations
Rebecca and Donald Lancefield with Mary Huettner
Mary Huettner, Rebecca Lancefield (lying down) and Donald Lancefield - Picnic in the woods
Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Rebecca and Donald Lancefield with Mary Huettner having a picnic
Donald Lancefield, Rebecca Lancefield and Mary Huettner - Picnic in the woods
Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University
Thomas Hunt Morgan sitting reading papers at Columbia
Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Columbia Gang
The "Columbia Gang" dining with Pithecanthropus. c 1920
Format: Photographs
Subject: People
Columbia Gang
The "Columbia Gang" dining with Pithecanthropus. c 1920
Format: Photographs
Subject: People