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Article: Bateson, William
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- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Bateson, William
(
b
. Whitby, England, 8 August 1861;
d
. Merton, London, England, 8 February 1926)
morphology, genetics.
Bateson was the son of William Henry and Anna Aiken Bateson, His father, as classical scholar, had become master of St, John
’
s College, Cambridge (1857), and Bateson lived in that university town until 1910. In that year he moved to London and remained there until his death.
Marked as
“
a vague and aimless boy
”
while at Rugby, Bateson confounded the doubters by taking first-class honors in the natural science tripos at Cambridge, from which he received the B.A. in 1883, A student and later (1885
–
1910) a fellow of St,. John
’
s College, ...