Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (born 1864)

Carl Correns

German botanist and geneticist (1864–1933)

Carl Erich Correns was a German botanist and geneticist notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanist Hugo de Vries, and for his acknowledgment of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on…