An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

BENEDEN, Edouard Joseph Louis Marie van

3 entries
  • 496

Le maturation de l’oeuf, la fécondation et les premières phases du développement embryonnaire des mammifères.

Bull Acad. roy. Sci. Belg., 2 sér., 40, 686-736, 1875.

First detailed description of the segmentation of the mammalian ovum.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY
  • 497

Contributions à l’histoire de la vésicule germinative et du premier noyau embryonnaire.

Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belg., 2 sér., 41, 38-85, 1876.

Independently of Flemming, van Beneden discovered the centrosome.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology
  • 502.1

Récherches sur la maturation de l’oeuf, la fécondation et la division cellulaire.

Arch. de Biol., 4, 265-640, 1883.

This work extended Hertwig’s work on fertilization (No. 495) down to the level of chromosomes, which were clearly visible in Ascaris after the sperm and egg united.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY, PARASITOLOGY › Helminths › Parasitic Worms › Ascaris