William Bateson

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William Bateson

William Bateson (born August 8, 1861 in Whitby , † February 8, 1926 in Merton ) was a British geneticist . In 1905 he coined the term genetics . The biologist, anthropologist and natural philosopher Gregory Bateson was his son.

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William Bateson was educated at Rugby School and St. John's College , Cambridge . In 1883 he graduated from Cambridge with a BA , where he also worked as an assistant to Adam Sedgwick (1854–1913). From 1883 to 1884 he worked with William Keith Brooks (1848-1908) at Johns Hopkins University .

After the rediscovery of the work of Gregor Mendel in 1900, Bateson contributed significantly to the spread of Mendel's ideas. In a letter that Bateson wrote to Adam Sedgwick on April 10, 1905, he first used the term genetics . At a meeting under his chairmanship in London in 1906, he officially proposed the term for the newly emerging science.

1907 was Bateson Silliman - Lecturer at Yale University and from 1908 to 1909 professor of biology at Cambridge. Together with Reginald Punnett he discovered the linkage of genes and founded the Journal of Genetics with him in 1910 . Bateson was appointed director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution in 1910. From 1912 to 1914 he also held the Fuller Professorship for Physiology at the Royal Institution . In 1922 he became a curator at the British Museum .

In 1894 he was elected as a member (" Fellow ") of the Royal Society , which in 1904 awarded him the Darwin Medal and in 1920 the Royal Medal . In 1901 he received the Victoria Medal of Honor from the Royal Horticultural Society . In 1909 he was accepted into the Linnaeus Society . In 1921 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , in 1923 a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to discontinuity in the origin of species . Macmillan, London / New York 1894, archive.org
  • Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defense . University Press, Cambridge 1902, archive.org
  • Problems of Genetics Yale University Press, New Haven 1913, archive.org

literature

  • Patrick Bateson : William Bateson: a biologist ahead of his time. In: Journal of Genetics. Vol. 81, No. 2, August 2002, ISSN  0022-1333 , pp. 49-58, online (PDF 283 KB) (PDF)
  • Ray Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters, and Garden Designers. Revised and completely updated edition. Taylor & Francis et al. a., London 1994, ISBN 0-85066-843-3 , p. 54.
  • Bateson, William . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 30 : Abbe - English history . London 1922, p. 418 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beatrice Bateson (Ed.): William Bateson, FRS, Naturalist. His essays & addresses. Together with a short account of his life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 1928, p. 93.
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. William Bateson. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed July 31, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Bateson, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitby
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1926
Place of death Merton