Edouard Van Beneden 1825382 221165353 2008-06-23T09:26:37Z DOI bot 6652755 Citation maintenance. You can [[WP:DOI|use this bot]] yourself! Please [[User:DOI_bot/bugs|report any bugs]]. {{Infobox Scientist |name = {{PAGENAME}} |box_width = |image = Edouard van Beneden in front of the Aquarium et musée de zoologie.jpg |image_width =150px |caption = {{PAGENAME}} |birth_date = [[5 March]], [[1846]] |birth_place = [[Leuven]] |death_date = [[28 April]], [[1910]] |death_place = [[Liège]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[Belgium|Belgian]] |ethnicity = |field = [[Embryology|embryologist]] |work_institutions = [[University of Liège]] |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[meiosis]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''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== *{{cite journal | quotes = no |last=Hamoir |first=G |authorlink= |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. |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=9–15 | publisher = | location = | issn = | pmid = 1627480 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} *{{cite journal | quotes = no |last=Hamoir |first=G |authorlink= |year=[[1986]] |month=Oct |title=[Edouard Van Beneden, biologist and stoic] |journal=Revue médicale de Liège |volume=41 |issue=20 |pages=779–85 | publisher = | location = | issn = | pmid = 3541105 | bibcode = | oclc =| id = | url = | language = | format = | accessdate = | laysummary = | laysource = | laydate = | quote = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Beneden, Edouard}} [[Category:Belgian biologists]] [[Category:Belgian academics]] [[Category:1846 births]] [[Category:1910 deaths]] {{biologist-stub}} [[de:Édouard van Beneden]] [[es:Edouard Van Beneden]] [[fr:Édouard van Beneden]] [[wa:Édouard Van Beneden]]