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Born February 3, 1857 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died November 11, 1927 (aged 70) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Subjects Of Study plant • genotype • heredity • mutation theory • phenotype
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Edith Rebecca Saunders
British botanist and geneticist
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
Austrian botanist
Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming
Danish botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
Muriel Wheldale Onslow
British biochemist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Julius von Sachs
German botanist

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