George Linius Streeter PAAA NAS APS H

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(1873–1948) was a 20th-century American anatomist and world leading embryologist. He was Director of the

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from 1917 to 1940. He gives his name to Streeter's Developmental Horizon and Streeter's

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Life

Streeter was born on 12 January 1873 at

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to George Austin Streeter, a glove manufacturer, and his wife, Hannah Green Anthony. He completed a general degree at

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in 1895, then studied Medicine under Prof

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gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1899. He served his internship at

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then began teaching Anatomy at

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alongside

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Henry Hun. He then spent the year 1902/3 in Germany studying in Frankfurt under Ludwig Edinger and in

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under Wilhelm His. Following his period with His he began to focus on

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and the development of the human nervous system in the womb. In 1904 he joined

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under Prof

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. In 1906 he went to the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in

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for one academic year, then to the

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in his first professorship, as Professor of Gross Anatomy. In 1914 he returned to Baltimore as a Research Professor with Prof Mall. When Mall died in 1917, he succeeded him in his role as Director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, remaining there for 23 years. In 1936 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the

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. He died of a heart attack at

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on 27 July 1948.

Publications

*''The Cortex of the Brain in the Human Embryo'' (1907) *''The Development of the Scala Tympani'' (1917) *''Development of the Auricle in the Human Embryo'' (1922) *''Focal Deficiencies in Foetal Tissues'' (1930) *''Development of the Macaque Embryo'' (1941)

Family

In 1910 he married Julia Allen Smith of

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. They had one son and two daughters.

References

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