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Edouard Van Beneden
Edouard Van Beneden (5 March, 1846, Louvain, Belgium-28 April, 1910, Liège) was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège; he has been at the basis of the genetic studies of the 20th century, thanks to his works on a parasite of the horse, that made him discover how chromosomes combined during reproduction.
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