Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated ... so he struggled to pay for his education. Mendel becomes a monk. His professor recommended Mendel to the Augustinian ...

In one of the great triumphs of scientific experimentation, Austrian biologist and monk Johann Gregor Mendel, Darwin's contemporary, solved this problem in the mid-nineteenth century. Ironically ...

Gregor Mendel ... autonomy—was pivotal, Mendel’s commitment to education and self-improvement reflected the aspirations of a population keen on asserting its cultural and intellectual presence. His ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...