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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Example Sentences

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was responsible for turning Chabad into a global movement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

One of his five sons, Rabbi Mendel Goldstein, assumed leadership of the synagogue and its school.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Their discovery - of the structure and function of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA - ranks alongside those of Mendel and Darwin in its significance to modern science.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

It all amounts to “a much more complete panorama of maize’s evolutionary history,” says co-author Miguel Vallebueno-Estrada, a paleogenomicist at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 29, 2023

On January 6, 1884, Mendel died of kidney failure in Brno, his feet swollen with fluids.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee