Florence Margaret Durham
Geneticist
Died when: 80 years 80 days (962 months)Star Sign: Aries
Florence Margaret Durham (6 April 1869 – 25 June 1949) was a British geneticist at Cambridge in the early 1900s and an advocate of the theory of Mendelian inheritance, at a time when it was still controversial.
She was part of an informal school of genetics at Cambridge led by her brother-in-law William Bateson.Her work on the heredity of coat colours in mice and canaries helped to support and extend Mendel's law of heredity.
It is also one of the first examples of epistasis.
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