Carl Correns | |
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 Carl Correns in the 1910s | |
| Born | 19 September 1864[1] |
| Died | 14 February 1933 (aged 68) Berlin, Germany |
| Education | University of Munich |
| Known for | Discovery of cytoplasmic inheritance |
| Spouse | Elisabeth Widmer (niece of Karl Nägeli) |
| Children | Carl Wilhelm, Erich, Anna-Eva |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, genetics |
| Institutions | University of Tübingen, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology |
| Academic advisors | Karl Nägeli |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Correns |
Carl Erich Correns (19 September 1864[2] – 14 February 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanist Hugo de Vries, and for his acknowledgment of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject.
Correns was a student of Karl Nägeli, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas, and who subsequently engaged in a brief exchange of letters concerning reproducibility of the results in another species (Hieracium). Because of the special properties of Hieracium, those experiments failed and Mendel dropped his studies on the subject.
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