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Sir John Graham Kerr
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Sir John Graham Kerr: Facts & Related Content

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Born September 18, 1869 • England
Died April 21, 1957 (aged 87) • England • (Died on this day)
Subjects Of Study lungfish • vertebrate • embryo • evolution
Steen Willadsen
Danish embryologist
C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
William Froude
British engineer
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
British biologist and writer
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Cornelia Maria Clapp
American zoologist
Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Francis Maitland Balfour
Francis Maitland Balfour
British zoologist
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov
Soviet biologist
Ross Granville Harrison
American zoologist

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