Hugo de vries biography of nancy pelosi
Hugo de vries...
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist (1848–1935)
In this Dutch name, the surname is de Vries, not Vries.
Hugo Marie de Vries (Dutch:[ˈɦyɣoːdəˈvris]; 16 February 1848 – 21 May 1935)[2] was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists.
He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while apparently unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.
Hugo de vries biography of nancy pelosi
Early life
De Vries was born in 1848, the eldest son of Gerrit de Vries (1818–1900), a lawyer and deacon in the Mennonite congregation in Haarlem and later Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1872 until 1874,[3] and Maria Everardina Reuvens (1823–1914), daughter of a professor in archaeology at Leiden University.
His father became a member of the Dutch Council of State in 1862 and moved his family over to The Hague. From an early age Hugo showed much interest in botany,