Famous+Scientist





Scientist's Name: Gregor Mendel

Born:1822

Died/Present:1884

Country Born:Austria

School:Local Secondary School

Area(s) of Science:Heredity, Genetics

Fame: He began his research in 1856 on genetics, three years before Darwin published his Origin of Species. In the garden of the Monastery in which he was a monk Mendel was elected Abbot of his Monastery in 1868. Gregor Mendel's work stayed unknown for a whole century. When a new generation of botanists began finding similar results and "rediscovered" him though their ideas were not identical to his. Genetics is what he is famous for.

Interesting fact/quote:He taught at a local secondary school. The school he got taught at is the school that he taught.

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Your Name: Briana Baker

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