John Bretland Farmer

For other people with the same name, see John Farmer (disambiguation).

Sir John Farmer
FRS
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
SpouseEdith May Gertrude Pritchard
AwardsFRSE; FRS; Knighthood
Scientific career
Fieldsbotanist; cytologist

Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS[1] FRSE (5 April 1865 – 26 January 1944) was a British botanist. He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity. Farmer and J. E. S. Moore introduced the term meiosis in 1905.[2]

  1. ^ Blackman, Vernon Herbert (1945). "John Bretland Farmer. 1865–1944". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (14): 17–31. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1945.0002. S2CID 178213671.
  2. ^ Harman, Oren Solomon. The man who invented the chromosome. Harvard University Press, 2004, p. 40