Edward Laurens Mark
Edward Laurens Mark | |
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| Born | May 30, 1847 Hamlet, New York |
| Died | December 16, 1946 (aged 99) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Leipzig University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology, Anatomy |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Rudolf Leuckart |
| Doctoral students | Thomas Barbour, George Howard Parker, William Emerson Ritter, Alfred G. Mayer, William Rees Brebner Robertson. |
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Edward Laurens Mark (May 30, 1847 – December 16, 1946) was an American zoologist, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University. In his landmark cytological monograph published in 1881, Mark conceived parenthetical referencing for citations, also known as Harvard referencing.