who is gregor mendel and why is he famous
Gregor Johann Mendel (Czech: ÅehoÅ Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 â 6 January 1884) (English /ËmÉndÉl/) was a German-speaking Moravian-Silesian 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.