Lucien Cuénot
Lucien Cuénot | |
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Lucien Cuénot | |
| Born | 21 October 1866 Paris |
| Died | 7 January 1951 (aged 84) |
| Education | biologist |
| Known for | multiple allelism at a genetic locus |
Lucien Claude Marie Julien Cuénot (French: [keno]; 21 October 1866 – 7 January 1951) was a French biologist. In the first half of the 20th century, Mendelism was not a popular subject among French biologists. Cuénot defied popular opinion and shirked the “pseudo-sciences” as he called them. Upon the rediscovery of Mendel's work by Correns, De Vries, and Tschermak, Cuénot proved that Mendelism applied to animals as well as plants.