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Introduction

This page is a brief introduction to just some of the historic embryologists who have contributed to our understanding of development today. The embryologists have been listed in a rough timeline and their names can often be found associated with embryological structures. There are of course too many to list all here, and those appearing elsewhere on this current site are included below (Please contact me if you would like your favourite historic embryologist added to the list on this page).

This page does not cover modern embryologists, who can be found as the authors of articles and reviews in many different journals and books today.

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal \| Camillo Golgi

Historic Papers: 1800's | 1900's | 1910's | 1920's | 1930's | 1940's | 1950's | 1960's | 1970's | 1980's

Martin Heinrich Rathke (1793 – 1860)

Rathke was a German embryologist and anatomist best known today for "Rathke's pouch", a transient folding surface ectoderm from roof of the oral cavity that will form the anterior pituitary (hypophysis). in later development the connection with the oral cavity is lost.

Links: Pituitary Development | Historic Terminology | Embryology History

Martin Rathke

John Quain (1796 - 1865)

Johannes Peter Müller (1801 - 1858)

Julius Kollmann (1834 - 1918)

Kollmann was a German embryologist and Professor extraordinarius, Munich University, 1870–8; professor of anatomy, Basel University, 1878 – 1913. Images from Kollmann's 2 volume Atlas of the Development of Man (Handatlas der entwicklungsgeschichte des menschen) were extensively reused in other embryology textbooks and are also the basis of many modern drawings.

Links: Atlas (Volume 1) | Atlas (Volume 2) | Category:Kollmann | Julius Kollmann

Julius Kollmann

Robert Remak (1815 - 1865)

Remak was a Polish-German embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist credited with many contributions to embryology. Discovered (1838) the non-medullated nerve fibres, named (1842) the three embryo germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm) and (1844) identified the nerve cells of the heart, called Remak's ganglia.

Robert Remak

Wilhelm Roux (1850 – 1924)

Roux was a German zoologist and pioneer of experimental embryology. Described "Entwicklungsmechanik" (mechanisms) a physiological approach to embryology. One experiment used a heated needle to kill at the frog 2 cell stage one of the blastomeres. Doctoral thesis - On the bifurcation of blood vessels. A morphological study.

Wilhelm Roux

Wilhelm His (1831 - 1904)

His was a noted Swiss anatomist and embryologist educated in Basel and Bern, in Berlin. His teachers in Würzburg were Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858) and Robert Remak (1815-1865) and in Prague and Vienna with Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902). All three of these researchers were major 19th century embryologists.

Wilhelm His was a Swiss anatomist and embryologist.

Wilhelm His

Oskar Hertwig (1849 – 1922)

Hertwig was a German embryologist, Professor extraordinarius of Anatomy and Comparative Anatomy, Director of the II. Anatomical Institute of the University of Berlin.

Links: Text-Book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals

Oskar Hertwig

Franklin P. Mall (1862 - 1917)

Mall is most remembered for his work done at the Department of Embryology at the Carnegie Institute of Washington. He began collecting human embryos while a postgraduate student in Lepzig with Wilhelm His, but didn't receive the first Carnegie specimen until his position at Johns Hopkins University.

Franklin Mall

George L. Streeter (1873 – 1948)

Streeter was an American embryologist, holding many key positions during embryology discoveries in the early period of last century, and also associated with the establishment of the Carnegie Institution.

Links: Carnegie Stages | Streeter G.L. (1918). The histogenesis and growth of the otic capsule and its contained periotic tissue-spaces in the human embryo | PMID17799310 | PMID15618898

George Streeter

Santiago Ramón y Cahal (1852 - 1934)

Cahal was a Spanish pathologist and histologist and one of the early neuroscientists. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Links: Ramón y Cahal | Neural System Development

Ramon y Cahal

Hans Spemann (1869 - 1941)

Spemann was a German embryologist who worked extensively on amphibian development and was the discoverer of the organiser region (or primitive node) the controller of gastrulation. Received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development".

Links: Embryology History - Hans Spemann | Frog Development | Gastrulation

Hans Spemann

Viktor Hamburger (1900 - 2001)

Shinya Yamanaka (1962 - )

Shinya Yamanaka

Professor Yamanaka has had a key role to play in identifying the specific 4 factors alone required to transform a cell from adult tissues into a stem cell. These 4 factors have also been called "Yamanaka Factors" and the stem cells formed, by their introduction or expression, are called "induced Pluriopotential Stem Cells" (iPS).

Links: Shinya Yamanaka | Induced Stem Cells | Stem Cells | The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012

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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, May 6) Embryology History - Embryologists. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/History_-_Embryologists

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