How to Construct Your Intellectual Pedigree: A History of Mentoring in Science by Elof Axel Carslon

Author:Elof Axel Carslon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Legend for Intellectual Pedigree of F. A. E. Crew

Francis Albert Eley Crew (1886–1973) was born in Tipton and died in Sussex, both in England. His father was a grocer. Crew studied medicine at Edinburgh and in WWI he served in the medical corps. He got his DSc in developmental genetics, studying the embryology of the reproductive system in vertebrates. He did research on intersexual conditions and their physiological and anatomic features. He headed the animal genetics unit of the University of Edinburgh and during WWII he hosted H. J. Muller, Charlotte Auerbach, and Guido Pontecorvo, all victims of Fascist or Communist attacks on genetics.

Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire (1879–1915) was born in Kensington and died in London, both in England. His father was an MD. Darbishire was a student of embryologist Francis Balfour at Oxford. He adopted the biometric approach to evolution that Balfour favored but after the rediscovery of Mendelism in 1900 he began breeding mice, poultry, and other small vertebrates. He argued that both Mendelism and biometrics were valid for evolutionary studies in his book, Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery. In 1915 he enlisted in the artillery but contracted meningitis and died in London.

Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860–1906) was born in London and died in Oxford, both in England. He was a founder of the field of biometrics with Karl Pearson and Francis Galton. He also did research on embryology and its ties to evolution through phylogeny. The “biometric school” was opposed by William Bateson who favored discontinuous evolution through sudden mutations that were meristic (duplication of organs) or homeotic (displacement of organs in the body) mutations.

Francis Maitland Balfour (1851–1882) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and died in Chamonix, France. He studied embryology, especially the urogenital system in vertebrate embryos. He died young, falling to death while attempting to climb Mont Blanc in the Alps.

Michael Foster (1836–1907) was born in Huntingdon, England, and died in London, England. He was a student of Thomas Henry Huxley and studied physiology and its relation to evolution.

Edward Sharpey-Schafer (1850–1935) was born in London and died in North Berwick, both in England. His father was German, and his mother was English. He got his MD at University College in London. He studied with William Sharpey and added Sharpey’s name to his own after Schafer’s son was killed in WWI. Sharpey-Schafer improved histological techniques for the study of tissues and cell organelles. He wrote a text in histology and he is also known for publishing a paper on how to provide artificial respiration to victims of choking or sudden death.

William Sharpey (1802–1880) was born in Arboath, Scotland and died in London. His father was a shipowner. He studied surgery in Edinburgh and then studied in Padua, Berlin, and Heidelberg and got his MD in Paris with Dupuytren. Sharpey’s fibers in anatomy are associated with the attachment of tendons to bone.

Andrew Marshall (1779–1858) was an anatomist who began his medical career as a ship’s mate and spent most of his career in the Royal Navy. He got his MD at Glasgow and founded the Belfast Medical Society.

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