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Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg (15 November 1871 – 11 October 1962) was an Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n agronomist
Agronomist

Agronomists are scientists who specialize in agronomy, which is the science of utilizing plants for food, fuel, feed, and fiber....
. von Tschermak is one of three men - see also Hugo de Vries
Hugo de Vries

Hugo Marie de Vries was a Netherlands botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution....
 and Carl Correns
Carl Correns

Carl Erich Correns was a Germany botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanists Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg and Hugo de Vries....
 - who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel was an Augustinians priest and scientist, and is often called the father of genetics for his study of the biological inheritance of certain Trait s in pea plants....
's work on genetics. von Tschermak published his findings in June, 1900.

By a quirk of history Correns was a student of Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli

Karl Wilhelm von N?geli was a Swiss botany. He discovered what would later become known as chromosomes and apparently discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics....
, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas but who failed to understand how significant Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel was an Augustinians priest and scientist, and is often called the father of genetics for his study of the biological inheritance of certain Trait s in pea plants....
's work was.






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Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg (15 November 1871 – 11 October 1962) was an Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n agronomist
Agronomist

Agronomists are scientists who specialize in agronomy, which is the science of utilizing plants for food, fuel, feed, and fiber....
. von Tschermak is one of three men - see also Hugo de Vries
Hugo de Vries

Hugo Marie de Vries was a Netherlands botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution....
 and Carl Correns
Carl Correns

Carl Erich Correns was a Germany botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanists Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg and Hugo de Vries....
 - who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel was an Augustinians priest and scientist, and is often called the father of genetics for his study of the biological inheritance of certain Trait s in pea plants....
's work on genetics. von Tschermak published his findings in June, 1900.

By a quirk of history Correns was a student of Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli

Karl Wilhelm von N?geli was a Swiss botany. He discovered what would later become known as chromosomes and apparently discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics....
, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas but who failed to understand how significant Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel was an Augustinians priest and scientist, and is often called the father of genetics for his study of the biological inheritance of certain Trait s in pea plants....
's work was. Tschermak was a grandson of a man who taught Mendel botany during his student days in Vienna.

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