George Linius Streeter PAAA NAS APS HFRSE (1873–1948) was a 20th-century American anatomist and world leading embryologist.
He completed a general degree at Union College, New York in 1895, then studied Medicine under Prof George Huntington at Columbia University gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1899.
[3] He served his internship at Roosevelt Hospital, New York City then began teaching Anatomy at Albany Medical College alongside neurologist Henry Hun.
He then spent the year 1902/3 in Germany studying in Frankfurt under Ludwig Edinger and in Leipzig under Wilhelm His.
When Mall died in 1917, he succeeded him in his role as Director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, remaining there for 23 years.