Edgar Allen
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{{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]]
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'''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==
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==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]
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[[Category:Washington University in St. Louis faculty|Allen, Edgar]]
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