Reginald Punnett
Reginald Punnett | |
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Reginald C. Punnett | |
| Born | Reginald Crundall Punnett 20 June 1875 |
| Died | 3 January 1967 (aged 91) |
| Education | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Journal of Genetics Punnett square |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS (/ˈpʌnɪt/; 20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967) was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. His Mendelism (1905) is sometimes said to have been the first textbook on genetics; it was probably the first popular science book to introduce genetics to the public.