Walter Heape
25 April 1855 - 10 September 1929
Walter Heape FRS (29 April 1855 – 10 September 1929) was a British zoologist and embryologist. Heape is known for the first successful mammalian embryo transfer.
Early life
Heape was born 29 April 1855 in Brompton, London to a wealthy family. Until the age of seventeen, he was taught by a private tutor. He then attended Owens College for one year.
From 1873 to 1879, Heape worked for a rice and sugar milling firm, then a merchant firm, and finally a cotton spinning mill before his health deteriorated and he decided to pursue a scientific career. After briefly studying physiology at Arthur Gamgee's laboratory in Owens College and then botany at Marmaduke Alexander Lawson's laboratory in Oxford, Heape went to the University of Cambridge to study physiology under Michael Foster, botany under Sydney Howard Vines, and animal morphology under Francis Maitland Balfour. Heape received an honorary M.A. from Cambridge on 10 December 1885. From 1879 to 1882, Heape concentrated under Balfour on mammalian embryology until Balfour died in a mountain climbing accident.
Career
In 1882, Heape became an instructor and demonstrator in animal morphology as an assistant to Adam Sedgwick and remained in that post until 1885.
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