Hugo de Vries

Also known as de Vries, Hugo Marie de Vries, Hugo Devries, Hugo DeVries, H. M. de Vries

Dutch botanist (1848-1935)

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Hugo de Vries was a Dutch botanist who lived from 1848 to 1935 and made important contributions to our understanding of how plants change and evolve over time. His work helped shape modern genetics and evolutionary biology by studying how traits pass from one plant generation to the next.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Hugo
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Place of birth: Haarlem
Place of death: Lunteren
Occupation: university teacher
Educated at: Leiden University
Employer: University of Amsterdam
Languages spoken: Dutch
Native language: Dutch
Academic degree: doctorate
Field of work: botany
Image: Hugo de Vries.jpg

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member of: Academy of Sciences of Turin
date of birth: 1848-02-16
date of death: 1935-05-21
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nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
name in native language: Hugo de Vries
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Encyclopedic overview

Hugo Marie de Vries ( Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː də ˈvris]; 16 February 1848 – 21 May 1935) 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.

Early life

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