Charles Zeleny

Charles Zeleny
Born	(1878-09-17)17 September 1878 Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States
Died	21 December 1939(1939-12-21) (aged 61) Urbana, Illinois, United States
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral students	Effa Muhse
Other notable students	Marion Durbin Ellis

Charles H. Zeleny (17 September 1878 - 21 December 1939) was an American zoologist of Czech descent. He was a professor at the University of Illinois. He made important contributions to experimental zoology, especially embryology, regeneration, and genetics.

Zeleny was born in Hutchinson, Minnesota, the son of Czech immigrants from Křídla. He was the younger brother of John Zeleny. He died in Urbana, Illinois.^[1] He co-supervised Effa Muhse the first female to graduate with a PhD from Indiana University.^[2] Marion Durbin Ellis was also one of his students at Indiana.^[3]

References

1. Zeleny (1939). "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947". FamilySearch.
2. Ferrara, Amanda (December 14, 2015). "Effa Funk Muhse: First Woman Ph.D. at Indiana University – Blogging Hoosier History". Retrieved 2022-10-04.
3. Durbin, Marion L. (October 1909). "An Analysis of the Rate of Regeneration Throughout the Regenerative Process". The Journal of Experimental Zoology. 7 (3): 397–420. Bibcode:1909JEZ.....7..397D. doi:10.1002/jez.1400070302. Retrieved July 21, 2023.