“It requires indeed some courage to undertake a labour of such far-reaching extent; this appears, however, to be the only right way by which we can finally reach the solution of a question the importance of which cannot be overestimated.”

About Gregor Mendel

Scientist • Austrian

Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian friar and botanist who is acclaimed as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Through his meticulous work on pea plants, he discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance which...