Pozvání na výzkumné cesty - Die Wege der Forschung betreten – eine Einladung
Invitation to the exploratory research ways

Author(s): Šárka Pospíšilová, Jan Emil Biernat
Subject(s): Philosophy of Science, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: science; Gregor Johann Mendel; genetics;
Summary/Abstract: There are not many scientists who have managed to lay the foundations for an entire scientific field. And there are certainly not many who have achieved such a feat in this country. Therefore great respect is due Gregor Johann Mendel, considered the founder of genetics, who worked for most of his life in the Augustinian monastery at Old Brno and, on the basis of his experimental work, formulated the laws of heredity that are now called by his name throughout the world. However, Mendel was a much more interdisciplinary scientist, involved in many different fields. In addition to conducting thousands of challenging experiments investigating the inheritance of individual traits in peas, Mendel was also interested in meteorology, beekeeping and breeding. In addition, he also served as a priest, abbot of the St. Thomas Monastery, and even as a bank director. We can hardly imagine such a wide range of activities among contemporary scientists.

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