William Bateson was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, the son of a classical scholar. In 1883, he earned his bachelor of arts degree in natural science from Saint John's College, University of Cambridge. Although he had minimal training in physics, chemistry,...

William Bateson (1861-1926), an English biologist, was mainly concerned with evolutionary questions. His dissatisfaction with traditional Darwinian arguments about life's history led him to a career study of heredity and variation. Under Darwin's...

1861-1926 English Biologist William Bateson was one of the scientists who, at the turn of the twentieth century, expanded the views of evolution and helped to describe the force of heredity and variation. He promoted the ideas contained in the newly...

William Bateson (August 8, 1861 – February 8, 1926) was a British geneticist. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel...

Her new book shows how to find constancy in the changes of modern life "Mary Catherine Bateson was born on December 8, 1939, and looked very much herself," wrote her mother, Margaret Mead, in her 1972 memoir, Blackberry Winter. But today Bateson...

Perhaps Andrew Bateson first realised that he was destined for big things at the Bar when, in the early 1960s, operatives from M15 arrived to instal a wall-safe in his rambling family home at Walton-on-Thames. The safe was to protect the secret documents he...