Why wasn't Gregor Mendel famous until after he died?

Answer 1

Mendel used his results to form his law of segregation. He also fromed the law of independent assortment (but that isn't needed for the core course). This law segregation stated that an organisms characterisitics are made of two factors now known as alleles these factors are separated into each gamete, and unite during fertillization.

Answer 2

Mendel kept results of all the work he did and analysed his results. In 1866, Mendel was 44 years old, and published his findings. However, Mendel was ahead of time and nobody knew about chromosomes or genes and were left confused. He died 20 years later with all ideas ignored. 16 years after his death his work was finally recognised (1900).

Answer 3

Gregor Mendel wasn't famous because he was a monk and the scientists expected nothing from a monk, also he had really bad hand writing on his letters he sent out to the scientist's, and finally, because he explained science with math and scientists back then did not believe math could answer science.

Answer 4

While the experiments and observations were replicable no mechanism was known or could be found at that time. Also he did his work in a monastery which was outside the access of much of the scientific community so few other scientists read his papers.

Answer 5

Gregor Mendel's work on genetics was not widely recognized during his lifetime because it was ahead of its time and its significance was not fully appreciated until later scientists rediscovered and built upon his findings. Mendel's work was published in an obscure scientific journal and did not receive much attention at the time. It was only after the turn of the 20th century, when his experiments were better understood and confirmed, that his contributions to genetics were fully recognized.