Gregor+Mendal


 * Born in 1822, The village of Heinzendorf, Austria**
 * He died in 1884**
 * He taught a 14-year period at a local school**
 * Over the course of 10 years he completed the tedious work involving the cultivation and selective crossbreeding of nearly 30,000 plants, and the counting and categorizing of hundreds of thousands of peas**
 * He attepted his theory on other plants**