See also: Bateson

William Bateson is a British biologist , born the August 8th 1861 with Whitby and dead the February 8th 1926 with Merton, Surrey.

It makes its studies with the Rugby School and the St John' S College where it obtains its Master off Arts. It contributes to the diffusion of work of Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in the Anglo-Saxon world. It meets the opposition of the zoologist Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860-1906), its former professor, and of the mathematician Karl Pearson (1857-1936), who had developed the Biométrie. Bateson Marie in 1896 with Beatrice Durham, union of which will be born a son.

Bateson is the first to suggest the term of Génétique to describe the study of heredity and the science of the variation in a letter with Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) dated from the April 18th 1905. It will publicly use this term at the time of an International Conference of 1906. Three years later, Wilhelm Johannsen (1857-1927) uses the term of gene .

In 1907, it teaches with Yale, then in Cambridge in 1908 - 1909. Of 1910 with 1929, it directs the Institute Horticultural John Innes in Merton Park in Surrey. It receives a title of doctor honoris causa by the university of Sheffield.Il becomes member of the Royal Society in 1894 and receives the Médaille Darwin in 1904 and the royal Médaille in 1920. Bateson is member many British and foreign learned societies.

With Reginald Punnett (1875-1967), it redécouvre the genetic Connection ( genetic linkage in English) and founds off the Journal Genetics in 1910. His/her son is the anthropologist Gregory Bateson (1904-1980).

Sources

• Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of April 30th, 2006).
• Al G. Debus (to dir.) (1968). World Who' S Who in Science. In Biographical Dictionary off Notable Scientists from Present Antiquity to the. Marquis-Who' S Who (Chicago): xvi + 1855 p.