BIOLOGIST

Gregor Mendel

1822 - 1884

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Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gregor Mendel has received more than 6,066,880 page views. His biography is available in 111 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 107 in 2019). Gregor Mendel is the 3rd most popular biologist, the 3rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Czech Biologist.

Mendel is most famous for his studies on inheritance. He found that traits are passed from one generation to the next in a predictable pattern.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Gregor Mendel ranks 3 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Darwin, and Carl Linnaeus. After him are Alexander Fleming, Ivan Pavlov, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Cuvier, Rosalind Franklin, and James Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Gregor Mendel ranks 3. Before him are Louis Pasteur, and Ulysses S. Grant. After him are Heinrich Schliemann, Frédéric Passy, Rudolf Clausius, César Franck, Francis Galton, Robert Luther, Rutherford B. Hayes, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, and Charles Hermite. Among people deceased in 1884, Gregor Mendel ranks 1. After him are Bedřich Smetana, Maria Anna of Savoy, Elias Lönnrot, Marie Taglioni, Marie Bashkirtseff, Johann Gustav Droysen, Paul Morphy, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Hermann Kolbe, and Fanny Elssler.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Gregor Mendel ranks 3 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), and Franz Kafka (1883). After him are Antonín Dvořák (1841), Gustav Mahler (1860), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Oskar Schindler (1908), and Bedřich Smetana (1824).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, Gregor Mendel ranks 1. After him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), August von Pelzeln (1825), Josephine Kablick (1787), and Friedrich Reinitzer (1857).

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