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Also Known As Hugo Marie de Vries
Born February 16, 1848 • Haarlem • Netherlands
Died May 21, 1935 (aged 87) • near Amsterdam • Netherlands
Notable Works “The Mutation Theory”
Subjects Of Study Mendelian inheritance • evolution • mutation theory
Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen
Danish botanist and geneticist
Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
Austrian botanist
Carl Erich Correns
German botanist
George Harrison Shull
American botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Edith Rebecca Saunders
British botanist and geneticist
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala
American geneticist and biologist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
J.B.S. Haldane.
J.B.S. Haldane
British geneticist
Vavilov inspecting citrus trees at Maykop, Russian S.F.S.R., in 1935
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian geneticist

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