Field of Study

✏️ Biologist, Educator, Scientist

Interesting Facts

✏️ won the NAACP's first Spingarn Medal for outstanding achievement by a Black American English

✏️ was a Julius Rosenwald Fellow in Biology of the National Research Council

✏️ a stamp honoring him was issued

Places of Work & Study

✏ studied at Kimball Hall Academy in New Hampshire before enrolling at Dartmouth College

✏️ ️ first job out of college was as a teacher and researcher at Howard

✏️ Later he worked in research at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory

✏️ Furthered his education at the University of Chicago by obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy degree

Famous For

✏️ the role of environmental factors in development

✏️ the fast and slow blocks to polyspermy during fertilization

✏️ experimental parthenogenesis

✏️ embryo morphogenesis