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5 unusual facts about Edward Kravitz


Edward Kravitz

In collaboration with his postdoctoral fellow, Antony "Tony" Stretton, Ed began developing a technique to visualize the structure of neurons in order to determine whether neuronal shapes are genetically specified.

After graduating from Evander Childs High School in The Bronx, Ed remained in the neighborhood he grew up in and began his studies at City College of New York (CCNY).

Ed continued to explore the function of amines using Homarus americanus, the American lobster, as a model organism to study aggression.

Using Procion Yellow, Ed, Tony, and Edith Maier found that neurons from two different animals had strikingly similar morphological shapes.

Ed and Tony contacted Imperial Chemicals, a manufacturer of fabric staining dyes located in Providence, RI and obtained over 120 dyes to inject into lobster neurons.



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