Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 22, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk who is often called the "father of genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants.Mendel showed that there was particulate inheritance of traits according to his laws of inheritance. However, nobody (including Mendel) realised the significance of his work and it was largely ignored until the turn of the 20th century. Its rediscovery prompted the foundation of genetics.

Bibliography

• Colin Tudge In Mendel's footnotes ISBN 0099288753 book about Gregor Mendel
• Curt Stern and Sherwood ER (1966) The Origin of Genetics.
• Robin Marantz Henig, Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics, Houghton Mifflin, May, 2000, hardcover, 292 pages, ISBN 0395977657; trade paperback, Houghton Mifflin, May, 2001, ISBN 0618127410
• William Bateson Mendel's Principles of Heredity, a Defense, First Edition, London: Cambridge University Press, 1902. On-line Facsimile Edition: Electronic Scholarly Publishing, Prepared by Robert Robbins
• Reginald Punnett, Mendelism, Cambridge, 1905
• Robert Lock, Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity and Evolution, London, 1906
• James Walsh, Catholic Churchmen in Science, Philadelphia: Dolphin Press, 1906
• Bartel Leendert van der Waerden Mendel's experiments Centaurus 12, 275-288 (1968) refutes allegations about "data smoothing"