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William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Nicolaus Copernicus Roger Bacon's circular diagrams relating to the scientific study of optics Gregor Mendel, Augustinian friar and geneticist Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi Marin Mersenne Pierre Gassendi William of Ockham Illustration from Nicolas Steno's 1667 paper comparing the teeth of a shark head with a fossil tooth Nicole Oresme Albertus Magnus Christopher Clavius First page of Boscovich ...
Mendel Sachs (/ z ɑː k s /; April 13, 1927 – May 5, 2012) was an American theoretical physicist. His scientific work includes the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force , strong force , electromagnetism , and gravity .
Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ ˈ m ɛ n d əl /; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [2] 20 July 1822 [3] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian [4] [5] biologist, meteorologist, [6] mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.
Gregor Mendel's experiments with plant hybridization led to his laws of inheritance. This work became well known in the 1900s and formed the basis of the new science of genetics , which stimulated research by many plant scientists dedicated to improving crop production through plant breeding.
Thomas Burr Osborne (August 5, 1859 – January 29, 1929) was an American biochemist who, with Lafayette Mendel, independently discovered Vitamin A, [1] though Elmer McCollum and Marguerite Davis were ultimately given credit, as they had submitted their paper first by three weeks.
Jerry M. Mendel is an engineer, academic, and author.He is professor emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. [1]Mendel has authored and co-authored 600 technical papers and 13 books including Uncertain Rule-based Fuzzy Logic Systems: Introduction and New Directions, Explainable Uncertain Rule-Based Fuzzy Systems, Perceptual Computing: Aiding ...