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Francis (Frank) Maitland Balfour, mais conhecido como F. M. Balfour (Edimburgo, 10 de novembro de 1851 — Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, 19 de julho de 1882) foi um biólogo britânico. [1] Morreu na tentativa de escalar o Mont Blanc. Foi reconhecido por seus colegas como um dos grandes biólogos de seu tempo e sucessor de Charles Darwin.
Francis Maitland Balfour, known as F. M. Balfour, FRS (10 November 1851 – 19 July 1882) was a British biologist. He lost his life while attempting the ascent of Mont Blanc. He was regarded by his colleagues as one of the greatest biologists of his day and Charles Darwin's successor.
29 de jun. de 2010 · Published: 2010-06-29. During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of evolutionary embryology, especially through his comparative embryological approach to uncovering ancestral relationships between groups.
Francis Maitland Balfour, British zoologist, younger brother of the statesman Arthur James Balfour, and a founder of modern embryology. He made many original observations about the embryonic development of vertebrate urogenital organs (e.g., kidneys, sex organs) and the origin of spinal nerves.
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Francis Maitland Balfour (known as ‘Frank’ to his familiars) was born into an upper class Edinburgh family in November 1851. The picture of him that is overwhelmingly used in biographical accounts, taken from an oil painting by John Collier, shows him looking slightly ethereal, with a moustache of a type fashionable at the time.
29 de mai. de 2018 · People. Science and Technology. Cell Biology: Biographies. Francis Maitland Balfour. Balfour, Francis Maitland. views 3,336,798 updated May 29 2018. Balfour, Francis Maitland. ( b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 10 November 1851; d. near Courmayeur, Switzerland, 19/20July 1882) embryology.
Biological Sciences Libraries. Home. Librarians. Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882) - Zoology. zoobalfouroriginalcrop2small.jpg. Balfour was Professor of Animal Morphology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Books were given by his family to form the nucleus of the Zoological Department Library.
