On most of the Google home pages today, you will see a logo that looks like a pea but with scientific annotation marks around it. The logo looks like this:
Google Pea Logo - Gregor Mendel
Why the pea logo today?
Gregor Johann Mendel is known for discovering genetics and his birthday, July 20, 1822, was 189 years ago today. To celebrate his discovery and his name, Google made a special Google logo (aka Doodle) for him.
He is the founder of the science of genetics. He discovered it during his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Although, the importance of this work was not realized until the 20th century.
Gregor Johann Mendel, Abbot of the Augustinian Monastery, Brünn, Austria, (now Brno, the Czech Republic), discovered the celebrated laws of heredity which now bear his name: the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment — that prove the existence of paired elementary units of heredity (factors) and establish the statistical laws governing them.
He later presented his work from these experiments in two lectures before the Society for the Study of the Natural Sciences in Brünn in 1865. His paper resulting from these lectures, Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden ("Experiments in Plant Hybridization,") was published in the Society's Proceedings in 1866.
Please take a moment to browse the following pages to learn more about the man and his work, and the great history and contribution that he represents at Villanova.
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