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Gregor Mendel
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Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian friar and botanist in Brunn who was the first to lay the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics, through his experiments cross-breeding garden pea plants.
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Mendel's 1865 to 1866 pea experiments are the field's intellectual origin, though the name genetics itself was coined later, by William Bateson in 1905, the year recorded elsewhere as when the field was founded.
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