Mendel was an Austrian monk and famous Biologist and geneticist, considered the "Father of Genetics".
Mendel was born on July 20, 1822, in Hengendorf bei Odrau, Silesia, Austria (now Heynice, Czech Republic).
Mendel selected Pea Plant for 7 years to study the character's inheritance pattern.
Mendel generalized two laws of inheritance, which are known as the "Law of Segregation" and the "Law of Independent Assortment".
Mendel's work and his two laws of inheritance did not become famous during his lifetime.
Because at that time the use of Statistics and Mathematics in biology was utterly new to people.
But when it was rediscovered by three different scientists at the beginning of the 20th century, it revolutionized the field of genetics.
What we call presently "Gene" a unit of heredity, Mendel called it a factor in his time, but could not provide any proof about it.
Mendel was also awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal.
Mendel died on January 6, 1884, in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic).