Scientist

                              GREGOR MENDEL   Gregor Mendel   (born July 20, 1822, Heinzendorf, Silesia, Austrian Empire [now Hynčice, Czech Republic]—died January 6, 1884,   Brünn ,   Austria-Hungary   [now Brno, Czech Republic]) was a botanist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate, the first person to lay the mathematical foundation of the   science   of   genetics , in what came to be called   Mendelism . Education and early career  Born to a family with limited means in German-speaking  Silesia , Mendel was raised in a rural setting. His academic abilities were recognized by the local  priest , who persuaded his parents to send him away to school at the age of 11. His  Gymnasium  (grammar school) studies completed in 1840, Mendel entered a two-year program in  philosophy  at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Olmütz (Olo...