By a quirk of history PERSON@1 was a student of PERSON@2 , a renowned botanist with whom PERSON@3 corresponded about his work with peas but who failed to understand how significant PERSON@4 's work was .

By a quirk of history PERSON@1 was a student of PERSON@2 , a renowned botanist with whom PERSON@3 corresponded about his work with peas but who failed to understand how significant PERSON@3 's work was .
