Emma: Between Greg Mendel, our food obsessed tourist and now your fiancee this town is turning into a theme park.

The friar’s experiments laid the groundwork for genetics — and his understated approach to his work is inspirational.

Born Johann Mendel on July 20, 1822, the burgeoning scientific genius struggled financially for most of his childhood because he was the son of a poor farmer in the Austrian empire.

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.

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 ...