Gregor Johann Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel, the father of genetics, was born on 22 July, 1822 in Heizendorf, a village in Austria. His father's love for nature influenced Mendel and he showed great interest in living beings since his childhood. He completed his school education in a monastery in Bruno, and took a two-year University course in philosophy.
In 1848, he completed his theological studies and a year later he became teacher in high school at Znaim. After a year, he joined University of Vienna and studied science and mathematics. In 1854, he joined Brunn modern school as a teacher of physics and Natural history and continued there for 14 years. During this period, he executed his famous experiments on garden pea (Pisum sativum).
Mendel was not only one who studied about inheritance, Before Mendel many others had studied the inheritance of traits in peas and other organisms, but they failed to formulate laws of inheritance only because they did not analysed their results mathematically. Mendel combined his knowledge of science and mathematics and was the first one to keep count of individuals shows a particular characteristic in each generation. This leads him to give the Mendel 's laws of inheritance.