A Monk And Two Peas

It took seven years, 300,000 peas and several humiliating failures before the breakthrough for which Gregor Mendel is remembered - his groundbreaking investigations into the reproduction of the humble pea plant, which gave birth to the modern science of genetics. And even then his findings were promptly ignored, only to be rediscovered a generation after his death.This obscure monk struggled all his professional life to be accorded the credit he felt he was due. Science and mathematics were Mendel's forte his difficulties with his peers very nearly his downfall. Robin and Marantz Henig's investigation into his life and work make make his obsessions real, his failings all too human. A story fuelled by jealousy, intrigue and long-help grudges, A Monk and Two Peas is the evocative story of the discovery of the one of the keys to the secret of life.