mendel

For Mendel, appreciation was also posthumous, though it came somewhat sooner.

Mendel's findings weren't quite as widely ignored as is sometimes suggested.

In 1900, three scientists working separately in Europe rediscovered Mendel's work more or less simultaneously.

Mendel obediently did as Nageli suggested, but quickly realized that hawkweed had none of the requisite features for studying heritability.

Most our old explanations about eye color genetics came from his ideas, but more recently we've discovered that most traits don't fit neatly into Mendel's little squares because they involve several genes interacting together.