Reginald Punnett | |
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Born | Reginald Crundall Punnett 20 June 1875 |
Died | 3 January 1967 | (aged 91)
Education | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Known for | Journal of Genetics Punnett square |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Genetics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS (/ˈpʌnɪt/; 20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967)[1][2][3][4][5] was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. His Mendelism (1905) is sometimes said to have been the first textbook on genetics; it was probably the first popular science book to introduce genetics to the public.