<em>Gregor Mendel was born July 20, 1822. He became an Augustinian friar, grew peas in a monastery garden in Brno, and changed science forever.</em>
He was born Johann Mendel on July 20, 1822, in Heinzendorf — a small farming village in Austrian Silesia, now part of the Czech Republic — the son of peasant farmers who had worked the same land for generations. He was a bright child in an unlikely place, and a local schoolmaster noticed. The family stretched their resources to send him to school, and he was talented enough to continue his studies, though
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