Word: bateson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British universities announced in London as having been awarded Commonwealth Fund Fellowships to come to the United States next fall for two year's study in American universities four will come to Harvard. They are James McAlston, from the University of Edinburg; to study bacteriology; Frederick N. W. Bateson, from Oxford University, to study 18th century drama; Reginald Jackson, from the University of Sidney, and Oxford, to study philosophy; and Eric Francis Nash, Oxford, to study economics...
Died. Dr. William Bateson, 66, distinguished British biologist, famed investigator of the Mendelian theory of heredity; in London...
...English scientists are apparently convinced, however. William Bateson, former professor of biology at Cambridge, and a confirmed Weismannist, visited Vienna and later made a public attack on Kammerer's theory. In the interest of fair play, 50 Cambridge professors subscribed money to bring Kammerer to England for a hearing. He had worked unrecognized for 20 years, and since the war his salary has been approximately $150 a year. He was on the point of being forced to give up his researches when the invitation came. Professors G. H. F. Nuttall and Thornley Gardner, of Cambridge, together with a number...