The father of genetics couldn’t get anyone to listen to him — but he got the last laugh Gregor Mendel was disbelieved when he discovered genetics — until his work was rediscovered after he died ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would ...

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 ...

Gregor Mendel’s long lost manuscript on his pea-breeding experiments is the object of a tug of war between his relatives and the monastic order to which he belonged.

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.

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, a group of scientists decided to dig up his body and sequence his DNA.