Mendel

American  

[men-dl] / ˈmɛn dl /

noun

1. Gregor Johann 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.

2. a male given name, form of Mandel.

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Mendel British  

/ ˈmɛndəl /

noun

1. Gregor Johann (ˈɡreːɡɔr joˈhan). 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist; founder of the science of genetics. He developed his theory of organic inheritance from his experiments on the hybridization of green peas. His findings were published (1865) but remained unrecognized until 1900 See Mendel's laws

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Mendel Scientific  

/ mĕn′dl /

1. Austrian botanist and founder of the science of genetics. He formulated the important principles, known as Mendel's laws, that form the basis of modern genetics.

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Mendel

When Holly Mendel, the creator of the show, put the cast together, she wanted to construct an ensemble that could play together based on who they were offstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The narrator of “The Behavior of the Hawkweeds” ruminates on her grandfather’s childhood encounters with Gregor Mendel, the monk whose experiments with pea plants laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Mendel Uminer, a translator, scholar and literary-journal publisher, did not have a Collyer situation when he received a sternly worded letter from his building’s management company.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

For more than a century, biology has been guided by the principles of inheritance first described by Gregor Mendel through his famous pea plant experiments.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

As Darwin was beginning to write his opus on evolution in the spring of 1856, Gregor Mendel decided to return to Vienna to retake the teacher’s exam that he had failed in 1850.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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