Gregor Mendel

While there's little to solidify an answer, some believe it commemorates the death of renown geneticist, Gregor Mendel, who famously used bean and pea plants to test his theories on inheritance.

National Bean Day: Why It's Jan. 6 The Huffington Post 2011

Students who had studied there before me include the great physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, the logician Kurt Gödel, and the father of genetics, Gregor Mendel.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

While there's little to solidify an answer, some believe it commemorates the death of renown geneticist, Gregor Mendel, who famously used bean and pea plants to test his theories on inheritance.

National Bean Day: Why It's Jan. 6 The Huffington Post 2011

The modern understanding of the process of inheritance is now called “Mendelian,” in honor of Gregor Mendel, who had settled for being a monk after failing his botany exams at the University of Vienna.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

In the early 1860s, working alone, Gregor Mendel had identified a few characteristics in his purebred plants that were inherited from one generation to the next—the color of the pea flower, the texture of the pea seed, the height of the pea plant.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

In the early 1860s, working alone, Gregor Mendel had identified a few characteristics in his purebred plants that were inherited from one generation to the next—the color of the pea flower, the texture of the pea seed, the height of the pea plant.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

For an entire century, we've all been taught that we inherit many of our traits straight from our parents 'DNA in the same straightforward way that 19th-century Austrian monk Gregor Mendel seemed to show his pea plants inheriting their pod shape.

The Success Myth David Shenk 2010

In the early 1860s, working alone, Gregor Mendel had identified a few characteristics in his purebred plants that were inherited from one generation to the next—the color of the pea flower, the texture of the pea seed, the height of the pea plant.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

For an entire century, we've all been taught that we inherit many of our traits straight from our parents 'DNA in the same straightforward way that 19th-century Austrian monk Gregor Mendel seemed to show his pea plants inheriting their pod shape.

The Success Myth David Shenk 2010

Looks like someone forgot about Gregor Mendel from their what, fourth grade?

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