Today, Gregor Mendel and his pea plants are part of the canon of modern science. Every high school biology student learns the story of the monk who cross-bred pea plants in the abbey gardens and ...

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.

Pity Gregor Mendel. Far enough ahead of his peers that his work wasn't appreciated in his own lifetime. When the world was finally ready to deal with his results, the scientific community almost ...

Gregor Johann Mendel News. Top News // 3 years ago. The Almanac. On July 20, 1969, U.S. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon.

[And though Mendel visited London briefly in 1862, Darwin was not in town and Mendel did not speak English.] Gregor Mendel, Augustinian priest and scientist Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea.

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 ...

Today Gregor Mendel is a towering hero of biology, and yet during his own lifetime his ideas about heredity were greeted with deafening silence. In hindsight, it’s easy to blame his obscurity on ...

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 ...