1822 - 1884
Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian-Czech 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 5,593,307 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 105 in 2019). Gregor Mendel is the 3rd most popular biologist, the 2nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 3rd 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, Gregor Mendel ranks 3 out of 841. Before him are Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaeus. After him are Alexander Fleming, Ivan Pavlov, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Luc Montagnier, Ernst Haeckel, James Watson, Karl Landsteiner, and Konrad Lorenz.
1809 - 1882
HPI: 90.67
Rank: 1
1707 - 1778
HPI: 87.29
Rank: 2
1822 - 1884
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 3
1881 - 1955
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 4
1849 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 5
1632 - 1723
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 6
1744 - 1829
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 7
1932 - 2022
HPI: 75.96
Rank: 8
1834 - 1919
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 9
1928 - Present
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 10
1868 - 1943
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 11
1903 - 1989
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 12
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, César Franck, Rudolf Clausius, Francis Galton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Étienne Lenoir, Midhat Pasha, and Charles Hermite. Among people deceased in 1884, Gregor Mendel ranks 1. After him are Bedřich Smetana, Maria Anna of Savoy, Marie Taglioni, Paul Morphy, Elias Lönnrot, Johann Gustav Droysen, Marie Bashkirtseff, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Alfred Brehm, and Allan Pinkerton.
1822 - 1895
HPI: 87.59
Rank: 1
1822 - 1885
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 2
1822 - 1884
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 3
1822 - 1890
HPI: 76.71
Rank: 4
1822 - 1912
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 5
1822 - 1890
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 6
1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 7
1822 - 1911
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 8
1822 - 1893
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 9
1822 - 1900
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 10
1822 - 1883
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 11
1822 - 1901
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 12
1822 - 1884
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 1
1824 - 1884
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 2
1803 - 1884
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 3
1804 - 1884
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 4
1837 - 1884
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 5
1802 - 1884
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 6
1808 - 1884
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 7
1858 - 1884
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 8
1853 - 1884
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 9
1800 - 1884
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 10
1829 - 1884
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 11
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 12
Among people born in Czechia, Gregor Mendel ranks 2 out of 973. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856). After him are Jan Hus (1369), Gustav Mahler (1860), Antonín Dvořák (1841), John Amos Comenius (1592), Oskar Schindler (1908), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Edmund Husserl (1859), Milan Kundera (1929), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), and Václav Havel (1936).
1856 - 1939
HPI: 89.62
Rank: 1
1822 - 1884
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 2
1369 - 1415
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 3
1860 - 1911
HPI: 81.36
Rank: 4
1841 - 1904
HPI: 80.40
Rank: 5
1592 - 1670
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 6
1908 - 1974
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 7
1824 - 1884
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 8
1859 - 1938
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 9
1929 - 2023
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 10
1875 - 1926
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 11
1936 - 2011
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 12
Among biologists born in Czechia, Gregor Mendel ranks 1. After him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761), Josephine Kablick (1787), Friedrich Reinitzer (1857), Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), and Karel Domin (1882).
1822 - 1884
HPI: 83.47
Rank: 1
1787 - 1869
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 2
1883 - 1957
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 3
1794 - 1865
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 4
1791 - 1849
HPI: 50.51
Rank: 5
1661 - 1706
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 6
1794 - 1852
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 7
1761 - 1838
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 8
1787 - 1863
HPI: 49.63
Rank: 9
1857 - 1927
HPI: 48.11
Rank: 10
1858 - 1942
HPI: 47.82
Rank: 11
1882 - 1953
HPI: 46.45
Rank: 12