Edgar Allen 546001 217145085 2008-06-04T20:15:54Z Timichio 122072 Added infobox {{Infobox_Scientist | name = Edgar Allen | image = Replace_this_image_male.svg|300px | caption = Edgar Allen (1892-1943) | birth_date = {{birth date|1892|05|02|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Canon City, Colorado|Canon City]], [[Colorado]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1943|02|03|1892|05|02|mf=y}} | death_place = [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], [[Connecticut]] | residence = [[Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg|20px|]] [[USA]] | nationality = [[Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg|20px|]] [[USA|American]] | field = [[Anatomy]], [[Physiology]], [[Endocrinology]] | work_institution = [[Washington University]], [[Yale University]] | alma_mater = [[Brown University]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = }} '''Edgar Allen''' ([[May 2]], [[1892]] – [[February 3]], [[1943]]) was an American [[anatomist]] and [[physiologist]]. He is known for the discovery of [[estrogen]] and his role in creating the field of [[endocrinology]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | last =Cowan | first =Ruth | title =Allen, Edgar | encyclopedia = [[Dictionary of Scientific Biography]] | volume = 1 | pages =123-124 | publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons | location = New York | date = 1970 | isbn = 0684101149}}</ref>. Born on Cañon (Canyon) City, [[Colorado]], Allen was educated at [[Brown University]]. After serving in [[World War I]] he worked at [[Washington University]], until he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at the [[University of Missouri–Columbia|University of Missouri]] in [[1923]]. Ten years later he was appointed to the chair at [[Yale University]]. At Missouri, he began his studies of [[sex hormones]]. While it was commonly believed at the time that the female reproductive cycle was controlled by substance in the ''[[corpus luteum]]'', Allen sought the answer in the follicles surrounding the [[ovum]], leading to his discovery of estrogen, though it was identified six years later by [[Adolf Butenandt]]. Allen died of a heart attack in 1943 while on duty with the [[United States Coast Guard]]. ==References== <references/> ==Further Reading== * Gardner, W.U. (April 1943). "Edgar Allen (Obituary)." ''[[Science (journal)|Science]].'' Vol. 97, No. 2521, pp. 368-369. * [[American National Biography]], vol. 1, pp. 304-305. ==External links== * [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/195.html Biography of Edgar Allen on whonamedit.com] [[Category:American anatomists|Allen, Edgar]] [[Category:American physiologists|Allen, Edgar]] [[Category:Brown University alumni|Allen, Edgar]] [[Category:University of Missouri–Columbia faculty|Allen, Edgar]] [[Category:Yale University faculty|Allen, Edgar]] [[Category:People from Colorado|Allen, Edgar]] [[Category:1892 births|Allen, Edgar]] [[Category:1943 deaths|Allen, Edgar]] [[Category:Washington University in St. Louis faculty|Allen, Edgar]] [[ar:إدغار ألان]] [[pt:Edgar Allen]]