A Genetic Great 

Born as Johann Mendel in 1822, he was the second child of a farming family in Brunn, Moravia. He was very intelligent while a child in school. Although his parents Anton and Rosine Mendel were diligent, they were too poor to pay for their son to attend university. He is commonly known as Gregor, as it was the name that he took when he entered an Augustinian monatery in 1843. He also began a teaching career and attempted to get a permit, but failed. Regarless of this failure his abbot decided to send him to the Universtiy of Vienna. What suprised me about about Gregor Mendel while researching, is that although he was the first person to genetically like generations, he was not a highly revered scientist in his time. For most of his life he was simply a teaching monk.
 

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