Charles Rupert Stockard

Charles Rupert Stockard (1879–1939) was an American anatomist and zoologist.

He was born in Stoneville, Mississippi. In 1906, he joined the Department of Anatomy at Cornell Medical College. He became a professor of anatomy in 1911. He studied zoology under Thomas Hunt Morgan. He received his PhD in zoology from Columbia University in 1906. Pearl discovered that the offspring of the chickens that had been exposed to alcohol were not defected but were healthy. He attributed his findings to the detrimental effects of alcohol only on the eggs and sperm which were already weak, the strong eggs and sperm were unaffected by alcohol intoxication. Pearl argued that his results had a Darwinian, not a Lamarckian explanation. He was the managing editor of American Journal of Anatomy and the coeditor of the Journal of Experimental Zoology.

Stockard was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1922 and the American Philosophical Society in 1924.

He served as the 18th president of the Association of American Anatomists from 1928 to 1930.

Publications Hormones and Structural Development (1927) The Physical Basis of Personality (1931)