Charles Sedgwick Minot

Charles Sedgwick Minot (1852-1914) was an American anatomist, born at Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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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.

From 1912 to 1913 he served as Harvard exchange professor at Berlin and Jena.

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 important foreign societies.

Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Yale, Toronto, St. Andrews, and Oxford.

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

• Human Embryology (1892), which has been translated into German
• A Laboratory Text-Book of Embryology (1903; second edition, 1910)
• Age, Growth, and Death (1908)
• Die Methode der Wissenschaft (1913)
• Modern Problems of Biology (1913), also in French

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