Embryologists

Martin Heinrich Rathke (August 25, 1793, Danzig – September 3, 1860, Königsberg) was a German embryologist and anatomist.

Paul Bujor (born Pavel Bujor; August 2, 1862 – May 17, 1952) was a Romanian zoologist, physiologist and marine biologist, also noted as a socialist writer and politician.

Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Kopsch (4 March 1868 - 24 January 1955) was a German anatomist born in Saarbrücken.

George Washington Corner FRS FRSE (12 December 1889 – 28 September 1981) was an American physician, embryologist and pioneer of the contraceptive pill.

Margaret Adaline Reed Lewis (1881–1970) was an American cell biologist and embryologist who made contributions to cancer research and cell culture techniques, and was likely the first person to successfully grow mammalian tissue in vitro.

Prof Allen Thomson FRS FRSE FRCSE (2 April 1809 – 21 March 1884) was a Scottish physician, known as an anatomist and embryologist.

Hilde Mangold (20 October 1898 – 4 September 1924) (née Proescholdt) was a German embryologist who was best known for her 1923 dissertation which was the foundation for her mentor, Hans Spemann's, 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the embryonic organizer, "one of the very few doctoral theses in biology that have directly resulted in the awarding of a Nobel Prize".

Donald D. Brown is a professor at the Carnegie Institution for Science and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University.

John Beard (11 November 1858 – 1924) was a Scottish embryologist, known for his controversial theory of the trophoblastic origin of cancer and his experimental treatments of cancer by means of pancreatic enzymes.

Brian Keith Hall FRSC (born, 1941) is the George S.

John Samuel Budgett (16 June 1872 – 19 January 1904) was a British zoologist and embryologist.

Paul Wintrebert (1867–1966) was a French embryologist and a theoretician of developmental biology.

Pere Alberch (1954, Badalona – 1998, Madrid) was a Spanish naturalist, biologist and embryologist.

Gábor Vajta, MD, PhD, DSc (born 25 August 1952) is a medical doctor, human pathologist and mammalian embryologist living in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Eric Harris Davidson (April 13, 1937 – September 1, 2015) was an American developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology.

Gustav Jacob Born (1851– 1900) was a German histologist and author.

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Jane Marion Oppenheimer (1911–1996) was an American embryologist and historian of science.

Richard Marshall Eakin (pronounced AY-kin; May 5, 1910 – November 25, 1999), was an American zoologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, widely known for portraying prominent historical scientists during some of his lectures; dressing in costume and speaking in character to entertain and inform his students.

Dorothea Rudnick (January 17, 1907 - January 10, 1990) was an American embryologist, who also made contributions as a scientific editor and translator.

Mathilde Margarethe Lange (March 14, 1888-?) was an American biologist known for her research in experimental embryology.

Daria Schirman, also called Dasha (May 24, 1874 - ?) was a Russian physician and embryologist.

Helen Irene Battle (August 31, 1903 – June 17, 1994) was a Canadian ichthyologist and marine biologist.

Beatrice Mintz (born January 24, 1921 in New York City) is an American embryologist who has contributed to the understanding of genetic modification, cellular differentiation and cancer, particularly melanoma.

Étienne Wolff (Auxerre, 12 February 1904 - Paris, 18 November 1996) was a French biologist, specialising in experimental and teratological embryology.

Johannes Wolfgang Rohen (born September 18, 1921) is a German anatomist.

Sir John Graham Kerr FRS (18 September 1869 – 21 April 1957), known to his friends as Graham Kerr, was a Scottish embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP).

Walter Jakob Gehring (1939 - 29 May 2014) was a Swiss developmental biologist who was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Geraldine Pittman "Jerri" Woods (1921–1999) was an African American science administrator.

Warren Harmon Lewis (June 17, 1870 - July 3, 1964) was an American embryologist and cell biologist.

Louis J. Guillette Jr.

Vera Mikhaĭlovna Danchakoff (born 1879, last publication 1950) was a Russian anatomist, cell biologist and embryologist.

Yury Verlinsky (1 September 1943 – 16 July 2009) was a Russian-American medical researcher specializing in embryo and cellular genetics (genetic cytology).

Bei Shizhang (simplified Chinese: 贝时璋; traditional Chinese: 貝時璋; pinyin: Bèi Shízhāng; also written Shi-Zhang Bei; October 10, 1903 – October 29, 2009) was a Chinese biologist and educator.

Joan V. Ruderman (born 1947/48) is an American molecular and cell biologist.

Johann Alexander Ecker (10 July 1816 – 20 May 1887) was a German anthropologist and anatomist born in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Leopold Schenk (23 August 1840, Ürmény, Hungary - 17 August 1902, Schwanberg, Styria) was an Austrian embryologist.

Karl Heider (28 April 1856, Vienna – 2 July 1935, Deutschfeistritz) was an Austrian zoologist and embryologist known for his research involving the developmental history of invertebrates.

Viktor Hamburger (July 9, 1900 – June 12, 2001) was a German professor and embryologist.

Eugen Korschelt (28 September 1858, in Zittau – 28 December 1946, in Marburg) was a German zoologist.

Angelo Ruffini (Pretare of Arquata del Tronto,1864 – 1929) was an Italian histologist and embryologist.

Johannes Holtfreter (January 9, 1901 – November 13, 1992) was a German-American developmental biologist whose primary focus was the “organizer,” a part of the embryo essential for the development of the proper body plan.

John Adam Ryder (February 29, 1852, Franklin County, Pennsylvania – March 26, 1895), was an American zoologist and embryologist.

Martin Barry, MD, FRCPE, FRSE, FRS (28 March 1802, Fratton, Portsmouth, Hampshire – 27 April 1855, Beccles, Suffolk), was a British physician who studied histology and embryology.

Ethel (Nicholson) Browne Harvey (December 14, 1885 in Baltimore, Maryland – September 2, 1965 in Falmouth, Massachusetts) was an American embryologist, known for her critical findings about cell division, using the embryology of sea urchins, and for early work studying embryonic cell cleavage.

Antoine Étienne Renaud Augustin Serres (12 September 1786, Clairac – 22 January 1868, Paris) was a French physician and embryologist.