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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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
29 de jun. de 2010 · 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 (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 · The third son of James Maitland Balfour and Lady Blanche, daughter of the marquis of Salisbury, Francis Balfour came from an illustrious family, the outstanding member of which was his oldest brother, the prominent philosopher and statesman Arthur James Balfour.
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. The collection comprised over 500 books plus 77 bound pamphlets.
