Charles Sedgwick Minot

Charles S. Minot

Charles Sedgwick Minot (1852–1914) was an American anatomist.

Life

Charles Sedgwick Minot was born December 25, 1852 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His mother was Catharine "Kate" Maria Sedgwick (1820–1880) and father was William Minot II (1817–1894).^[1] Through his mother, namesake of her aunt, novelist Catharine Sedgwick (1789–1867), he was twice connected to the new England Dwight family of academics.^[2]

He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1872, studied biology at Leipzig, Paris, and Würzburg. At Harvard Medical School he taught from 1880 till his death as the James Stillman Professor of comparative anatomy in 1905 and director of the anatomical laboratories in 1912.

He was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1901, and of the Association of American Anatomists from 1904 to 1905, and was corresponding member of various foreign societies.

Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Yale University, the University of Toronto, St. Andrews, and Oxford. From 1912 to 1913 he served as Harvard exchange professor at Berlin and Jena. He died on November 19, 1914 in Milton, Massachusetts.

His cousin once removed, George Richards Minot (1885–1950), named for his great-grandfather George Richards Minot (1758–1802),^[3] shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934.^[4]

Works

In addition to many papers and monographs, his publications include:

• Charles Sedgwick Minot (1897). Human embryology. Macmillan. http://books.google.com/books?id=RNqnt559-LEC.  (1892), which has been translated into German
• A Laboratory Text-Book of Embryology (1903; second edition, 1910)
• Charles Sedgwick Minot (1908). The Problem of Age, Growth, and Death. Putnam. http://books.google.com/books?id=vUMQAAAAYAAJ.  (1908)
• Die Methode der Wissenschaft (1913)
• Modern Problems of Biology (1913), also in French

References

1. ^ "Sedgwick Family Papers 1717-1946 Guide to the Collection". Massachusetts Historical Society. http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0248. Retrieved February 4, 2011. 
2. ^ Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874). The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. 2. J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders. pp. 853–854. http://books.google.com/books?id=ghcfAAAAMAAJ. 
3. ^ "Hon, William Minot". Memoir read at a meetingof the Massachusetts Historical Society: 302–306. March 12, 1874. http://books.google.com/books?id=e2EBAAAAYAAJ&&pg=PA302. 
4. ^ Robert A. Kyle; Marc A. Shampo (November 2002). "George R. Minot—Nobel Prize for the treatment of pernicious anemia". Mayo Clinic Proceedings 77 (11): 1150. doi:10.4065/77.11.1150. ISSN 0025-6196. PMID 12440548. http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/77/11/1150.long. 

External links

• Biographical Memoir of Charles Sedgwick Minot, National Academies Press
• Charles Sedgwick Papers personal correspondence of the interrelated Sedgwick and Minot families, 1812-1908, Massachusetts Historical Society

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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Name	Minot, Charles Sedgwick
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Date of birth	23 December 1852
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