Edwin Grant Conklin (November 24, 1863 – November 20, 1952) was an American

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and

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Life

He was born in Waldo,

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, the son of A. V. Conklin and Maria Hull. He was educated at

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and

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...

. He was

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of biology at Ohio Wesleyan (1891–94) and professor of zoology at

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(1894–96), the

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(1896-1908), and

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(1908-1935). He became coeditor of the '' Journal of Morphology'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. He was president of the

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in 1912 and

president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), founded in 1848, is the world's largest general scientific society. It serves 262 affiliated societies and academies of science and engineering, representing 10 million individuals wo ...

in 1936. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1914. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as

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, from 1937 to 1952. In 1943 Conklin was awarded the John J. Carty Award from the

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. In 1995 the

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inaugurated the Edwin Grant Conklin Medal in his honor.

Family

He married Belle Adkinson (d.1940) in 1889.

References

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Duty or Dream? Edwin G. Conklin's Critique of Eugenics and Support for American IndividualismNational Academy of Sciences Biographical MemoirEdwin Grant Conklin Papers
from the

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1863 births 1952 deaths American zoologists Johns Hopkins University alumni Northwestern University faculty Ohio Wesleyan University alumni Ohio Wesleyan University faculty People from Marion County, Ohio Princeton University faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Marine zoologists American marine biologists Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{US-zoologist-stub

Life

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