William Bateson
English biologist (1861–1926) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the English geneticist. For his son the anthropologist and cyberneticist, see Gregory Bateson. For the British academic, see William Henry Bateson.
William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns. His 1894 book Materials for the Study of Variation was one of the earliest formulations of the new approach to genetics.
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William Bateson | |
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Born | 8 August 1861 |
Died | 8 February 1926(1926-02-08) (aged 64) |
Alma mater | St. John's College, Cambridge |
Known for | heredity and biological inheritance |
Awards | Royal Medal (1920) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | genetics |
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