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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
Victor McKusick
American physician and genome researcher
Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
Austrian botanist
Carl Erich Correns
German botanist