Edouard Van Beneden

{{Short description|Belgian biologist (1846-1910)}}

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|birth_date = 5 March 1846

|birth_place = Leuven

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Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden (5 March 1846 in Leuven – 28 April 1910 in Liège) was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist.Dictionary of Biography Page 141 Houghton Mifflin Company - 2003 "Beneden, Edouard Joseph Louis-Marie van 1846–1910 * Belgian cytologist and embryologist Born in Liege,"{{Cite journal |date=1920 |title=Professor Van Beneden of Liége |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1645676 |journal=Science |volume=52 |issue=1333 |pages=55–56 |issn=0036-8075}} He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. In this work he discovered how chromosomes organized meiosis (the production of gametes).

He is son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, a zoologist and paleontologist.

Van Beneden elucidated, together with Walther Flemming and Eduard Strasburger, the essential facts of mitosis, where, in contrast to meiosis, there is a qualitative and quantitative equality of chromosome distribution to daughter cells. (See karyotype). "Investigation of other materials (amphibians, mammals, plants) as regards the ubiquitous occurrence of indirect nuclear division" Published by Walther Flemming published in German by Springer-Verlag in 1880 in Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomie, Volume 18. Pages 151-259. Translation published in The journal of Cell Biology Volume 25, 1965

La maturation de l'oeuf, la fecondation, et les premieres phases du développement embryonnaire des mammifères, d'aprés des recherches faites chez le lapin : communication préliminaire in Bulletins de l'Académie royale de Belgique. 2me.série ; 40(12) 1875