!!!Mendel, Gregor eigentlich Johann Mendel

b. Hynčie, Czech Republic (then Heinzendorf), July 22, 1822, 
d. Brno, Czech Republic (then Bruenn), Jan. 6, 1884, prior of the 
Augustinian order, botanist. In 1865, after 8 years of crossbreeding 
varieties of the garden pea, discovered the basic laws of heredity, 
known as Mendel´s laws, and still valid today. In the same year 
he published his results at the Natural Science Society in Bruenn 
(Brno). They were disregarded for almost 40 years, until they were 
rediscovered by E.  Tschermak-Seysenegg, H. de Vries and C. 
Correns. Much later Mendel´s laws were confirmed by the 
chromosome theory of genetics.

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Work: Versuche ueber Pflanzenhybriden, 1866.

!Literature
J. G. Mendel, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1984; V. 
Orel, G. M. The First Geneticist, 1996; NDB.



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