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Hugo de Vries was a Dutch botanist who is most famous for his work on genetics.

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Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists.

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Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists....

Hugo De Vries

Dutch botanist and geneticist. Discovered the existence of heritable mutations

Date of Birth: 16.02.1848
Country: Netherlands

Content:

Hugo de Vries: A Dutch Botanist and Geneticist
Early Interest in Botany
Research and Contributions
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 1848 in Haarlem, Holland.

He was the eldest son of Gerrit de Vries, a lawyer and politician who served as the Dutch Prime Minister from 1872 to 1874.

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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