The Father of Genetics. Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated until after his death. He is now called the "Father of Genetics," but he was remembered as a gentle ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome ... Austrian biologist and monk Johann Gregor Mendel, Darwin's contemporary, solved this problem in the mid-nineteenth century.

Although Gregor Mendel developed his groundbreaking principles of inheritance in the mid-1800s, the importance of his work went largely unnoticed by the scientific community until the early 1900s.

Barbara McClintock’s pioneering work in genetics began just two decades after biologists rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on heredity in 1900. After refining chromosome-staining techniques, ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity ... Mendel was far ahead of his time, and his work was largely ignored for the next 35 years. In 1868 he was appointed as an abbot and ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Gregor Mendel’s seminal 1866 paper on pea plants ... a measured look at the Mendel mania occurring among his contemporaries. “[Mendel’s work] was very exciting—even ...

Genetics, the science of inheritance and variation among living organisms, can be traced back to the seminal work of Gregor Mendel, published in 1866. Yet today genetics is one of the most fast-moving ...

One hundred and sixty years ago this month, the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel presented his ... never even heard of him. By the time Mendel’s work was rediscovered some forty years after ...