He never did agree to pay the tax. This article originally appeared in print under the headline "The Father of Genetics Turns 200." Start your day with Reason.

On this day 200 years ago, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor and later as the "father of modern genetics." ...

The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. He's known as the father of genetics, so scientists exhumed Mendel's body and examined his DNA.

In July, the world celebrated 200 years since the birth of Gregor Mendel, who is widely accepted as the “father of modern genetics” for his discovery of the laws of inheritance.

In celebration of both the 200th anniversary of the birth of the “father of modern genetics”, Gregor Mendel, and the 60th anniversary of the beginning of newborn screening in the United States ...

That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this year to celebrate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. He's known as the father of genetics, so scientists exhumed Mendel's body and examined his DNA.

The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. He's known as the father of genetics, so scientists exhumed Mendel's body and examined his DNA.