Victor C. Twitty

Victor Chandler Twitty (November 5, 1901 — March 22, 1967) was an American biologist and embryologist.^[1][2][3] Twitty was chair of the biological sciences department, Stanford University, president of the American Society of Zoologists, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,^[2] Herzstein Professor of Biology, and a Guggenheim fellow.^[1][3][4] Born in Martin County, Indiana, he graduated from Butler College in 1925, received a doctorate from Yale University in 1929, and joined faculty of Stanford in 1932, becoming full professor in 1936.^[1][3]

Victor C. Twitty
Born	(1901-11-05)November 5, 1901
Died	March 22, 1967(1967-03-22) (aged 65)
Scientific career
Fields	biology and embryology

The New York Times called Twitty "a distinguished embryologist".^[1] The National Academy of Sciences called him "a master experimentalist in....the laboratory bench and the mountain terrain and streams of the American West".^[3]