Hugo de Vries, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hugo de Vries

Dutch botanist

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1848

Place of Birth: Haarlem, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 21-May-1935

Profession: professor, biologist, university teacher, botanist, geneticist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Hugo Marie de Vries (Dutch pronunciation: ['?y?o? d? 'vris]) (16 February 1848 – 21 May 1935) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists.
He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while apparently unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.