Rediscovery of Mendel's laws
Redescubrimiento de las leyes de Mendel
- Date
- 1900 · confidence high
- Place
- Amsterdam, Tübingen and Vienna
- Credited to
- Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak
- People
- 👤 Carl Correns1864–1933👤 Erich von Tschermak 19001871–1962👤 Hugo de Vries1848–1935
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
Three botanists independently arrived at Mendelian ratios and acknowledged Mendel's priority. Genetics was born as a discipline (named by Bateson, 1905).
Tschermak's contribution is considered minor by many historians.
What it led to
- genetics as a science
- chromosome theory
- population genetics
- scientific plant breeding (hybrids)
Built on
- Mendelian inheritance1865-1866
- Mitosis and chromosomes (Flemming)1879-1882
- chromosomes and mitosis