Edouard Van Beneden
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|birth_date = [[5 March]], [[1846]]
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|death_date = [[28 April]], [[1910]]
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'''Edouard Van Beneden''' ([[5 March]], [[1846]], [[Leuven]]– [[28 April]], [[1910]], [[Liège]]), son of [[Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden]], was a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[Embryology|embryologist]], [[Cell biology|cytologist]] and [[Marine biology|marine biologist]]. He was professor of [[zoology]] at the [[University of Liège]]; he has been at the basis of the [[genetics|genetic]] studies of the 20th century, thanks to his works on a [[parasite]] of the [[horse]], that made him discover how [[chromosome]]s combined during reproduction ([[meiosis]]).
Together with [[Walther Flemming]], [[Eduard Strasburger]], and others, he elucidated the essential facts of [[cell division]] and stressed the importance of the qualitative and quantitative equality of chromosome distribution to daughter cells.
==References==
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|year=[[1992]]
|month=Mar
|title=The discovery of [[meiosis]] by E. Van Beneden, a breakthrough in the morphological phase of heredity
|journal=Int. J. Dev. Biol.
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|pages=9–15
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|year=[[1986]]
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|title=[Edouard Van Beneden, biologist and stoic]
|journal=Revue médicale de Liège
|volume=41
|issue=20
|pages=779–85
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