Charles Zeleny

{{Short description|American zoologist}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1878|09|17}}

| birth_place = Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1939|12|21|1878|09|17}}

| death_place = Urbana, Illinois, United States

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| field = Zoology

| work_institution = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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| doctoral_students = Effa Muhse

| notable_students = Marion Durbin Ellis

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Charles H. Zeleny (17 September 1878{{snd}}21 December 1939) was an American zoologist of Czech descent. He was a professor at the University of Illinois. He made important contributions to experimental zoology, especially embryology, regeneration, and genetics.

Zeleny was born in Hutchinson, Minnesota, the son of Czech immigrants from Křídla. He was the younger brother of John Zeleny. He died in Urbana, Illinois.{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQX7-Q2J|title=Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947|last=Zeleny|date=1939|website=FamilySearch|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} He co-supervised Effa Muhse the first female to graduate with a PhD from Indiana University.{{Cite web |last=Ferrara |first=Amanda |date=December 14, 2015 |title=Effa Funk Muhse: First Woman Ph.D. at Indiana University – Blogging Hoosier History |url=https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iubarchives/2015/12/14/c593/ |access-date=2022-10-04 |language=en-US}} Marion Durbin Ellis was also one of his students at Indiana.{{cite journal|last=Durbin|first=Marion L.|date=October 1909|volume=7|number=3|journal=The Journal of Experimental Zoology|title=An Analysis of the Rate of Regeneration Throughout the Regenerative Process|pages=397–420 |doi=10.1002/jez.1400070302 |bibcode=1909JEZ.....7..397D |url= https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1400070302| access-date = July 21, 2023}}