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Hugo De Vries

Dutch botanist and geneticist. Discovered the existence of heritable mutations
Date of Birth:
Country: Netherlands

Content:
  1. Hugo de Vries: A Dutch Botanist and Geneticist
  2. Early Interest in Botany
  3. Research and Contributions
  4. Later Years and Legacy

Hugo de Vries: A Dutch Botanist and Geneticist

Hugo Marie de Vries, also known as Hugo de Vries, was born in in Haarlem, Holland.

Hugo de Vries | Dutch Botanist, Geneticist & Evolutionary ...

He was the eldest son of Gerrit de Vries, a lawyer and politician who served as the Dutch Prime Minister from to His mother, Maria Everardina Reuvens, was the daughter of a professor of archaeology at Leiden University.

Early Interest in Botany

From a young age, Hugo showed a great interest in botany.

He won several prizes for his herbarium collections while attending grammar schools in both Haarlem and The Hague, where his family later moved. He continued to study botany at Leiden University, with a focus on experimental botany as described in Julius Sachs' textbook "Le Hugo De Vries Biography - KETO