The father of genetics couldn’t get anyone to listen to him — but he got the last laugh Gregor Mendel was disbelieved when he discovered genetics — until his work was rediscovered after he died ...

The true legacy of Gregor Mendel: careful, rigorous and humble science. The friar’s experiments laid the groundwork for genetics — and his understated approach to his work is inspirational.

Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed "decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of 'founder of genetics.'" So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th ...

It’s hard to think of a scientist whose reputation is more squeaky-clean than the shy Austrian monk Gregor Mendel. His story invariably begins in the abbey garden, where from 1856 to 1863 he ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...