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Caroline Pellew
Caroline Pellew (born 1882) was a British geneticist who made significant contributions to knowledge of the laws of inheritance in various organisms including peas. Education Pellew was awarded the first minor studentship at the John Innes Centre in 1910. She was a Horticultural Associate of University College Reading and completed a two-year diploma course in horticulture. While at Reading she worked with the botany professor, Frederick Keeble, to investigate the genetics in the chemistry of flower colour. Research and Writing Pellew conducted much of her significant work on the "rogue" phenomenon in peas with William Bateson and became known as "Professor Bateson's right-hand man", or alternatively his "lieutenant, secretary, mentor and foil". She headed the researchers at Merton after Bateson's death, including fellow female geneticists; Dorothea de Winton, Dorothy Caley, Alice Gairdner, Irma Anderson-Kotto and Aslaug Sverdrup. By 1929, Pellew had proved her passion fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The ancient settlement of "Brighthelmstone" was documented in the ''Domesday Book'' (1086). The town's importance grew in the Middle Ages as the Old Town developed, but it languished in the early modern period, affected by foreign attacks, storms, a suffering economy and a declining population. Brighton began to attract more visitors following improved road transport to London and becoming a boarding point for boats travelling to France. The town also developed in popularity as a health resort for sea bathing as a purported cure for illnesses. In the Georgian era, Brighton developed as a highly fashionable seaside resort, encouraged by the patronage of the Prince Regent, later King George IV, who spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bateson
William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns. His 1894 book ''Materials for the Study of Variation'' was one of the earliest formulations of the new approach to genetics. Early life and education Bateson was born 1861 in Whitby on the Yorkshire coast, the son of William Henry Bateson, Master of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at Rugby School and at St John's College, where he graduated BA in 1883 with a first in natural sciences. Taking up embryology, he went to the United States to investigate the development of ''Balanoglossus'', a worm-like hemichordate which led to his interest in vertebrate origins. In 1883–4 he worked in the laboratory of William Keith Brooks, at the Chesapeake Zoölogical Laboratory in Hampton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 Births
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscianus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 941 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 188 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes pro-consul of Africa from 188 to 189. Japan * Queen Himiko (or Shingi Waō) begins her reign in Japan (until 248). Births * April 4 – Caracalla (or Antoninus), Roman emperor (d. 217) * Lu Ji (or Gongji), Chinese official and politician (d. 219) * Sun Shao, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 241) Deaths * March 17 – Julian, pope and patriarch of Alexandria * Fa Zhen (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (b. AD 100) * Lucius Antistius Burrus, Roman politician (executed) * Ma Xiang, Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primula
''Primula'' () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. They include the primrose ('' P. vulgaris''), a familiar wildflower of banks and verges. Other common species are '' P. auricula'' (auricula), '' P. veris'' (cowslip), and '' P. elatior'' (oxlip). These species and many others are valued for their ornamental flowers. They have been extensively cultivated and hybridised (in the case of the primrose, for many hundreds of years). ''Primula'' are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, south into tropical mountains in Ethiopia, Indonesia, and New Guinea, and in temperate southern South America. Almost half of the known species are from the Himalayas. ''Primula'' has over 500 species in traditional treatments, and more if certain related genera are included within its circumscription.''Primula''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisum
''Pisum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to southwest Asia and northeast Africa. It contains one to five species, depending on taxonomic interpretation; the International Legume Database (ILDIS) accepts three species, one with two subspecies: *''Pisum abyssinicum'' ( syn. ''P. sativum'' subsp. ''abyssinicum'') *''Pisum fulvum'' *''Pisum sativum'' - pea **''Pisum sativum'' subsp. ''elatius'' (syn. ''P. elatius'', ''P. syriacum'') **''Pisum sativum'' subsp. ''sativum'' ''Pisum sativum'' (the field or garden pea) is a major human food crop (see pea and split pea). ''Pisum'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including ''Bucculatrix pyrivorella'', cabbage moth, common swift, ghost moth, ''Hypercompe indecisa'', the nutmeg, setaceous Hebrew character and turnip moth. The ''Pisum sativum'' flower has 5 sepals (fused), 5 petals, 10 stamens (9 fused in a staminal tube and 1 stamen is free) and 1 subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Innes (philanthropist)
John Innes JP (20 January 1829 – 8 August 1904) was a British property developer and philanthropist. From the 1860s he developed Merton Park as a garden suburb in Merton, Surrey. In his will, he left funds and part of his estate at Merton for the establishment of a horticultural institute. This institute, the John Innes Centre, continues to bear his name today, as does John Innes compost, formulated at the institute. Family Innes was born on 20 January 1829 in Hampstead, Middlesex (now London Borough of Camden). He was the sixth of seven children of West Indies merchant John Innes (1786 – 1869) and his wife Mary Reid (1792 – 1849), a daughter of brewer Andrew Reid. The family owned sugar plantations in Jamaica and imported rum into England. They supported the anti-slavery campaign in the West Indies and eventually sold all the business interests. Innes was educated at boarding school in Brighton. Career Innes's early career was as a wine merchant in the City of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retirement
Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their job due to health reasons. People may also retire when they are eligible for private or public pension benefits, although some are forced to retire when bodily conditions no longer allow the person to work any longer (by illness or accident) or as a result of legislation concerning their positions. In most countries, the idea of retirement is of recent origin, being introduced during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Previously, low life expectancy, lack of social security and the absence of pension arrangements meant that most workers continued to work until their death. Germany was the first country to introduce retirement benefits in 1889. Nowadays, most developed countries have systems to provide pensions on retirement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme
Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme (3 June 1891 – 9 April 1955) was a Norwegian plant scientist and geneticist. Life Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme was born in 1891 in Bergen. Her father was Jakob Sverdrup, a bishop and politician, and her mother was Marie Bernardine Suur. In 1910, Sømme enrolled at the University of Oslo's Institute for Genetic Research (''Institut for Arvelighetsforskning'') in Oslo, Norway. In 1918, she started a master's degree in zoology, studying plankton in the Oslofjord from the research station in Drøbak. During her degree, she was supervised by Kristine Bonnevie, the first female professor in Norway. From this research, Sømme published the study 'Plankton surveys from Kristianiafjorden. Hydromeduser' in 1921. By 1919 she was appointed as an assistant professor (''amanuensis''), becoming only the second women ever to hold a research position at the university. Sømme and Bonnevie published studies on polydactyly ('Postaxial polydactylism in six generations of a Norw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma Andersson-Kottö
Irma Andersson-Kottö (1 January 1895Fries, Robert EliasA Short History of Botany in Sweden p. 112 (1950) ("The work of docent IRMA ANDERSSON-KOTTO of the Stockholm University (born in 1895) includes a series of papers on investigations of the genetics of ferns ...") - 7 July 1985) was a Swedish botanist and a pioneer in fern genetics. Education Andersson graduated from the University of Stockholm. In 1919 she wrote to William Bateson and joined the then John Innes Horticultural Institution (now the John Innes Centre) as a volunteer worker, where later she was appointed as a student. From 1934-38 she undertook her PhD at the University of London. Research Andersson studied inheritance in ferns and was the first to introduce the use of an agar-based growth medium for the experimental study of fern gametophytes. Her study of apospory and polyploid series in ''Asplenium scolopendrium'' was important in understanding the origin and development of the alternation of generations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Elizabeth Gairdner
Alice Elizabeth Gairdner (1873–1954) was a British plant scientist, geneticist and cytologist. Life In the 1910s, Gairdner was associated with the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge and became one of William Bateson's Mendelian followers. In Cambridge she studied Tropaeolum (Nasturtium) and this work interested Bateson – he had numerous drawings and figures of Tropaeolum by Gairdner in his collection. Gairdner joined the John Innes Horticultural Institution (now the John Innes Centre) in 1919 as a student, joining the so-called 'Ladies Lab' along with Caroline Pellew, Dorothea De Winton, Dorothy Cayley, Aslaug Sverdrup and Irma Andersson-Kottö. Gairdner investigated male sterility in flax, initially with Bateson, and continued the work after his death. In papers published in 1921 and 1929, they proposed that nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions may be causing the male sterility phenotype. Gairdner primarily worked with J. B. S. Haldane, who led the genetics research at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Cayley
Dorothy Mary Cayley (1874–1955) was a mycologist who discovered in 1927 that " Tulip breaking" is due to a virus. Early life and education Cayley was born in Sri Lanka in 1874, where her father, Sir Richard Cayley, was the 14th Chief Justice. Cayley came to England from Sri Lanka when she was seven and attended Stamford High School. She went to London University before studying horticulture at University College, Reading. Cayley was especially interested in plant disease and soils and entered the board of education's examination in horticulture which gained her first-class honours and a medal while in Reading. She also took a first class in the Royal Horticultural Society Examination and was appointed as the superintendent of the gardens that belonged to the Botanical Department at Reading. In 1910 Cayley volunteered at the John Innes Horticultural Institute (now the John Innes Centre), then located at Merton, Wimbledon, where she worked in the attic of the Manor House befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
