William Bateson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Bateson

British geneticist and biologist

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1861

Place of Birth: Whitby, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 08-Feb-1926

Profession: biologist, geneticist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
His 1894 book Materials for the Study of Variation was one of the earliest formulations of the new approach to genetics.