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Gregor Mendel

1822 - 1884

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Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (; German: [ˈmɛndl̩]; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregor Mendel is the 3rd most popular biologist, the 5th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Czech Biologist.

Mendel is most famous for his studies on inheritance. He found that traits are passed from one generation to the next in a predictable pattern.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Gregor Mendel ranks 3 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Darwin, and Carl Linnaeus. After him are Alexander Fleming, James Watson, Ivan Pavlov, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, and Karl Landsteiner.

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Among people born in 1822, Gregor Mendel ranks 3. Before him are Louis Pasteur, and Ulysses S. Grant. After him are Heinrich Schliemann, Frédéric Passy, Rudolf Clausius, César Franck, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Francis Galton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Alexander Mackenzie, and Prince Napoléon Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1884, Gregor Mendel ranks 1. After him are Bedřich Smetana, Maria Anna of Savoy, Elias Lönnrot, Marie Taglioni, Hermann Kolbe, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Paul Morphy, Johann Gustav Droysen, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Marie Bashkirtseff.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Gregor Mendel ranks 5 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), Franz Kafka (1883), Gustav Mahler (1860), and Ivana Trump (1949). After him are Antonín Dvořák (1841), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), and Oskar Schindler (1908).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Gregor Mendel ranks 1. After him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), August von Pelzeln (1825), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), Franz Xaver Fieber (1807), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857).

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