Edwin Conklin

Edwin Grant Conklin (1863 to 1952) was an American biologist and zoologist, born in Waldo, Ohio. He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins University, and was professor of biology at Ohio Wesleyan from 1891 to 1894 and professor of zoology at Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania from 1896 to 1908, and Princeton University from 1908 to 1935. He became coeditor of the Journal of Morphology, The Biological Bulletin and the Journal of Experimental Zoology. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1897 and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1908, became president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1912 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1936, and in 1943 received the John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences. The Society for Developmental Biology named its Edwin Grant Conklin Medal in his honor in 1995.