Edgar Allen
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Born on Cañon (Canyon) City, Colorado, Allen was educated at Brown University. After serving in World War I he took a position at Washington University School of Medicine in 1919 until, in 1923,[2] he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Ten years later he was appointed to the chair at Yale University.
At Missouri, he began his studies of sex hormones. While it was commonly believed at the time that the female reproductive cycle was controlled by substance in the corpus luteum, Allen sought the answer in the follicles surrounding the ovum, leading to his discovery of estrogen, though it was identified six years later by Adolf Butenandt in 1929.
He served as the 25th president of the American Association of Anatomists from 1942 to 1943.
Allen died of a heart attack in 1943 while on duty with the United States Coast Guard.
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cowan, Ruth (1970). "Allen, Edgar". Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 123–124. ISBN 0-684-10114-9.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Allen, Edgar - Becker Archives Database". beckerarchives.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
Further reading
- Gardner, W.U. (April 1943). "Edgar Allen (Obituary)." Science. Vol. 97, No. 2521, pp. 368–369.
- American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 304–305.
External links
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