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13~o~raphico~t Memoirs VOLUME 67
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ROBERT KYLE BURNS July 26, 1896-June 26, 1982 BY JAMES MURRAY ROBERT KYLE BURNS WAS born in HilIsboro, West Virginia, on July 26, IS96, and cried in Briclgewater, Virginia, on June 26, 1982. His long and productive scientific career was deco ted to understanding the processes of sexual differentiation in vertebrates.
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4 BI O GRAPHI CAL MEM OIRS Burns had not intended to become a scientist. In both high school en cl college he was fascinated by history, and by the time he was a senior at Bridgewater he had completecl his major in that subject.
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ROBERT KYLE BURNS 5 that hormones are responsible for sexual differentiation among vertebrates. Since at that time the hormone theory rested only on observation, the stage was set for testing it experimentally.
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6 B I O G RAP H I C A L M E M O I R S ably lay in the difficulty of intervening early enough in development. He therefore decided to work with the American opossum (Didelphis marsupiatis)
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ROBERT KYLE BURNS 7 epithelium, a well-developed cortex, primordial follicles, and growing oocytes (1955,1~. Thus he was able to establish the adequacy of the hormonal theory of sex determination as a general mechanism for vertebrates.
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8 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS professor of biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During much of his active career Burns spent his summers at the Mountain Lake Biological Station of the University of Virginia, where ~ first met him and learned to appreciate his quick mind en cl generous nature He heron ~ .
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ROBERT KYLE BURNS 9 Bridgewater College. I also was able to use an incomplete autobiographical account of Burns's early life and the files of the Mountain Lake Biological Station.
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0 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1925 The sex of parabiotic twins in Amphibia.
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ROBERT KYLE BURNS 1938 11 The effects of crystalline sex hormones on sex differentiation in Amblystoma.
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12 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS A Weiss, and V
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