Today google celebrates Gregor Mendel’s 189th birthday with a new Google Doodle the peas arranged in the shape of the Google logo on it’s home page..Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian Augustinian friar and scientist, who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants.