Comments on: Happy Birthday Gregor Mendel

By: catgirl

catgirl — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:13:10 +0000

Gregor Mendel is one of my favorite scientists. I don’t really know why, but I admire him more than anyone else. I feel like he is often under-estimated and overshadowed by other scientists like Einstein, Darwin, and the Curies. His experiments were so simple and revealed so much. Amazingly, he discovered all this before we even knew for sure that DNA was the unit of inheritance. His work set up ideas for so many scientists who followed him.

By: Tom McFadden

Tom McFadden — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:09:21 +0000

in his honor…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hKBHUaPo3I

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:39:29 +0000

He dug up peas. And genetics. He dug up genetics too.

By: wrpd

wrpd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:38:51 +0000

“Like Robert, I dispute the assertion that Gregor Mendel discovered peas.”

Were you there when they were discovered? I didn’t think so. They aren’t mentioned in the Bible, so they weren’t
around 2,000 years ago. That settles it for me.

By: Gerry L

Gerry L — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:46:38 +0000

And famous for being born exactly 147 years before human walked on the moon.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:42:25 +0000

Like Robert, I dispute the assertion that Gregor Mendel discovered peas.

It does seem rather strange that it took so long for someone to say “hey, look, the progenitors have an effect on the offspring” even though I’d be surprized if people hadn’t been commenting about how much so-and-so’s son looked like the butcher/milkman/parish priest even before Mendel’s discovery.

By: Coturnix

Coturnix — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:18:10 +0000

He also visualized whirled peas, I hear 😉

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:07:07 +0000

He discovered peas? Huh. 🙂