Erich von Tschermak

Erich von Tschermak
Erich Tschermak-Seysenegg
Born	15 November 1871
Died	11 October 1962
Nationality	Austria
Fields	agronomy
Doctoral advisor	Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Doctoral students	[]

Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg (15 November 1871 – 11 October 1962) was an Austrian agronomist. He was a son of the Moravia-born mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg. von Tschermak is one of three men - see also Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns - who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's work on genetics. von Tschermak published his findings in June, 1900.

By a quirk of history Correns was a student of Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas but who failed to understand how significant Gregor Mendel's work was. Tschermak was a grandson of a man who taught Mendel botany during his student days in Vienna.

References

• Monaghan, F V; Corcos A F. "Tschermak: a non-discoverer of mendelism. II. A critique". J. Hered. (UNITED STATES) 78 (3): 208–10. ISSN 0022-1503. PMID 3302014. 
• Monaghan, F; Corcos A. "Tschermak: a non-discoverer of Mendelism. I. An historical note". J. Hered. (UNITED STATES) 77 (6): 468–9. ISSN 0022-1503. PMID 3549880. 
• SCHUBERT, G (December 1952). "In memoriam Prof. Armin Tschermak-Seysenegg". Wien. Klin. Wochenschr. (Not Available) 64 (50): 966. ISSN 0043-5325. PMID 13049817. 

External links

• Article relating the work of Gregor Mendel

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