biography
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| lived:
| (1861–1926)
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| biography:
| Geneticist, born in Whitby, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Rugby School and Cambridge, became Britain's first professor of genetics at Cambridge (1908–10) and director of the new John Innes Horticultural Institution there (1910–26), as well as professor of physiology at the Royal Institution (1912–26). He produced the first translation of the heredity studies of Gregor Mendel (1900), and played a dominant part in establishing Mendelian ideas. He is known as ‘the father of genetics’, a term he himself coined. |
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