Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel (Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822^[2] – 6 January 1884) (English /ˈmɛndəl/) was a German-speaking Moravian-Silesian^[3] scientist and Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for centuries that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.^[4]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor Mendel