Florence Margaret Durham

Florence Margaret Durham
William Bateson, Beatrice Bateson and Florence Durham, 1906
Born(1869-04-06)6 April 1869
London, England
Died25 June 1949(1949-06-25) (aged 80)
The University Women's Club, London, England
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsRoyal Holloway College, Froebel Institute, Newnham College and National Institute for Medical Research

Florence Margaret Durham (6 April 1869 – 25 June 1949) was a British geneticist at Cambridge in the early 1900s and an advocate of the theory of Mendelian inheritance, at a time when it was still controversial.[1][2] She was part of an informal school of genetics at Cambridge led by her brother-in-law William Bateson.[1] Her work on the heredity of coat colours in mice and canaries helped to support and extend Mendel's law of heredity. It is also one of the first examples of epistasis.[3]

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  3. ^ "Women in Science: Florence Margaret Durham". Archived from the original on 10 September 2008. Retrieved 13 September 2016. National Institute for Medical Research