Johann Gregor Mendel
1822–84
Austrian monk and botanist. Laid the mathematical foundations of the science of genetics. Conducted plant breeding experiments in the monastery garden at Brno from 1856. Published "Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden", 1866. The Mendelian laws of segregation and independent assortment derive from his work.
Sources
DSB
Orel 1996.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Orel, Vítezslav. 1996. Gregor Mendel: the first geneticist. Translated by Stephen Finn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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