Gregor Mendel

Johann Gregor Mendel was born in Hyncice in what is now known as the Czech Republic on July 22, 1822. In 1843, at the age of 21, Mendel became a friar at the Augustinian monastery in Bruno, Czechoslovakia, a center of learning whose members studied theology, philosophy and natural sciences. This job was somewhat like what a monk does. Like many other young men at the time, he found security and an education at the monastery. From 1868 until his …

…Dwarf In the process of experimenting, he ended up making 287 crosses between 70 different purebred plants. Approximately 28,000 pea plants were used! This does not take into account the other species of plants he experimented on! On January 6, 1884 Gregor Mendel passed away. Although many say that it wasn't until 1900, sixteen years after his death, that his papers were rediscovered, it has since been found that many botanists quoted his work ever since 1867, two years after its publication.