Edouard Van Beneden

Edouard Van Beneden
Edouard Van Beneden
Born	5 March 1846 Leuven
Died	28 April 1910 Liège
Nationality	Belgian
Fields	embryologist
Institutions	University of Liège
Known for	meiosis

Edouard Joseph Marie Van Beneden (Leuven, 5 March 1846 – Liège, 28 April 1910), son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. In this work he discovered how chromosomes organized meiosis (the production of gametes).

Van Beneden elucidated, together with Walther Flemming and Eduard Strasburger, the essential facts of mitosis, where, in contrast to meiosis, there is a qualitative and quantitative equality of chromosome distribution to daughter cells. (See karyotype)

References

• Hamoir, G (March 1992). "The discovery of meiosis by E. Van Beneden, a breakthrough in the morphological phase of heredity". Int. J. Dev. Biol. 36 (1): 9–15. PMID 1627480. 
• Hamoir, G (October 1986). "[Edouard Van Beneden, biologist and stoic]". Revue médicale de Liège 41 (20): 779–85. PMID 3541105. 

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