Gregor Johann Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was born on July 22, 1822 in Heizendorf, Austria. Mendel studied variation in plants in his monastery’s experimental garden. Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested some 28,000 pea plants.
Mendel read his paper, “Experiments on Plant Hybridization”, at two meetings of the Natural History Society of Brunn in Moravia in 1865. Mendel’s paper was published in 1866 in proceedings of the Natural History Society of Brunn, it had little impact and was cited about three times over the next thirty five years. His paper has received plenty of criticism. It was not until the early 20th century that the importance of his ideas ws realized. In 1900, his work was rediscovered by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.
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