Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendelwas a German-speaking Moravian-Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for centuries that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 July 1822
CityHyncice, Czech Republic
CountryAustria