Christian Doppler
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Christian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He formulated the principle – now known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative spe
Christian Doppler
Doppler's birth house in the Makart square in Salzburg, just next door to where Mozart's family had lived. A Doppler research and memorial society is now housed there.
Plaque on the house in Prague in which Doppler lived from 1843 to 1847
Gregor Mendel
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Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking fam
Christian Doppler
…the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna. While there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, influenced the development of young Gregor Mendel, the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853. Doppler died on 17 March 1853 at age 49 from a…
Mendel, c. 1862
Mendel (seated second from right and numbered "2") with other faculty at the Brno Realschule in 1864 (Alexander Zawadzki is labelled "1".)