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Carl Correns
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
Archival Overview
German botanist and geneticist who independently rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900, discovered non-Mendelian cytoplasmic (maternal) inheritance, and served as the first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology.
Biographical Record
Carl Erich Correns (1864–1933) was an orphan raised in Switzerland and educated under Carl Nageli in Munich. In the late 1890s, conducting breeding experiments on peas and variegated four-o'clock flowers (Mirabilis jalapa) at the University of Tubingen, Correns independently worked out the statistical ratios of inheritance.
Upon searching the literature before publication in early 1900, Correns discovered Gregor Mendel's forgotten 1866 paper, giving Mendel full historical credit in his classic paper 'G. Mendel's Law Concerning the Behavior of Racial Hybrids'. In 1909, his studies on Mirabilis established the existence of non-Mendelian extranuclear organelle inheritance.
Key Life Milestones
Rediscovery and Championing of Gregor Mendel
Published 'Mendel's Law', restoring the Austrian monk's work to modern biological science.
Discovery of Extranuclear Cytoplasmic Inheritance
Proved that chloroplasts and plastids inherit traits maternally outside nuclear chromosomes.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialBerlin, Germany