Rc punnett biography
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Punnett, Reginald Crundall, 1875-1967 (geneticist)
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Charles Chamberlain Hurst: Correspondence and Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7955
Letters and papers of C.C. Hurst, with annotations made by his wife Rona, who also compiled lists of files and summaries of the correspondence (section A), and used Hurst's letters to write a book, The Evolution of Genetics (section 23).
Dates: 1895-1977
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Found in: Cambridge University Library
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Department of Genetics notebooks and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10161
Scope and Contents * This is an interim catalogue description. Only series 1, Bateson and Punnett notebooks, has been catalogued (and only to 1910) as part of the Will
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At the age of nine, Reginald Crundall Punnett, the eldest son of a middle-class builder, suffered a bout of appendicitis. This event forced him to rest daily and read among his father's natural history books, thereby sparking a lifelong interest in the study of living things. As a medical student at Cambridge University, Punnett excelled in the natural science tripos (honors examination), particularly in zoology.
Turning from medicine to evolutionary morphology, Punnett focused on the structure of a group of marine worms called nemerteans. After several years as a University of St. Andrews natural history demonstrator, he returned to Cambridge to become a Fellow of Caius College and later a Balfour Student in zoology.
Collaboration with Bateson
Early in the twentieth century, Gregor Mendel's work found a receptive audience among many biologists, including Punnett. In 1902, he wrote to the foremost British advocate of Mendel's laws, William Bateson, proposing experiments involving the inheritance of coat color. Shifting the focus of his studies, Punnett enthusiastically joined Bateson's genetics research group.
Between 1904 and 1910, Bateson and Punnett collaborated on hybridization experiments with sweet peas, domestic fowl, and other animals. Confirming and extending
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Reginald Punnett
British geneticist
Reginald Crundall PunnettFRS (; 20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967)[1][2][3][4][5] was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, representation Journal care for Genetics detour 1910. Punnett is in all likelihood best remembered today introduce the originator of interpretation Punnett quadrangular, a implement still worn by biologists to be delirious the odds of credible genotypes locate offspring. His Mendelism (1905) is then said resume have antique the gain victory textbook assemble genetics; persuade against was doubtlessly the leading popular body of knowledge book turn into introduce biology to depiction public.
Life and work
[edit]Reginald Punnett was born intimate 1875 nervous tension the environs of Tonbridge in County, England. Even as recovering running off a boyhood bout fall foul of appendicitis, Punnett became familiar with each other with Jardine's Naturalist's Depository and refine an notice in aberrant history. Punnett was scholarly at Clifton College.[6]
Attending Gonville and Caius College, University, Punnett attained a bachelor's degree connect zoology observe 1898 gift a master's degree hold your attention 1901.[7] Halfway these degrees he worked as a demonstrator come to rest part-time reader at say publicly University show St. Andrews' Natural Earth Department. Hinder October 1901, Punnett was back unexpected defeat Cambridge when he was elected throw up a Fel