Austrian botanist monk who performed experiments with the pea plant from 1857 to 1865. He self pollinated plants, wrapping them to guard against cross pollination. He noticed that characteristics of offspring, such as height, exhibited recessive and dominant behavior. He sent his results to Nägeli who responded with brief, cool comments. He published his results in the early 1860s, but his paper was ignored until rediscovered by de Vries in 1900. Mendel died never knowing that he would come to be known as the father of genetics.

de Vries, Nägeli