Science for All | Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) – The father of genetics ... but celebrated his birthday on July 22 as corroborated by his family. He was an extremely keen student, ...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, a group of scientists decided to dig up his body and sequence his DNA. Accessibility links.

Although Gregor Mendel developed his groundbreaking principles of inheritance in the mid-1800s, the importance of his work went largely unnoticed by the scientific community until the early 1900s.