William Bateson (1861-1926)

Key figure in the radical mutationist backlash against Darwinism beginning in the 1890's. Bateson was one of the first to accept the Mendelian laws that were rediscovered and reinterpreted in 1900. He popularized Mendelian genetics in Britain, discovered linkage, and introduced the term "genetics" itself in 1909. Bateson's beliefs in saltational evolution were influenced by his contacts with Galton in England and Brooks in America.

Bateson is the older fellow at the center. S. Wright is second from left.

Career:

Assistant, A. Sedgwick, early 1880's
Assistant, W. K. Brooks, Johns Hopkins University, 1883-1884
Field work, northern Asia, 1886-1887
Student, Cambridge University, 1887-1890
Silliman Lecturer, Yale University, 1907
Professor of genetics, Cambridge University, 1908-1910
Director, John Innes Horticultural Institution, 1910-1926
Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution, 1912-1914

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Key publications:

Materials for the Study of Variation (1894)
Mendel's Principles of Heredity: A Defence (1902)
Problems of Genetics (1913)

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