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That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this year to celebrate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

The history of science is full of tales of unappreciated genius. Indeed, the founder of modern genetics was not fully appreciated for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor ...

On this day 200 years ago, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering St. Thomas's Abbey in Austria-Hungary as an Augustinian Friar) and ...

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 lead ...

Had it not been for a bunch of peas on the google homepage, chances are you wouldn't have even heard of Gregor Mendel least of all remember his (189th) birthday. Mendel as google will tell you was an ...

The Gregor Mendel Foundation's specifications for the Innovation Award are short and to the point: the award, which went to Prof. Dr Nils Stein and Dr Martin Mascher from the IPK in Berlin today, is ...

Gregor Mendel, an Austrian scientist who lived and conducted much of his most important research in a Czechoslovakian monastery, established the basis of modern genetic science. He experimented on pea ...

Gregor Mendel, the man credited with founding the science of genetics, has had his 189th birthday celebrated in the latest Google Doodle. The illustration replacing Google's traditional logo on the ...