2024 Mendel Memorial Award Daniel L. Hartl

The Mendelianum Committee of the Moravian

Museum

has decided to award the 2024 Mendel Memorial

Medal

to Daniel L. Hartl for his contribution to the

development of Gregor Mendel's legacy and the

interpretation of his scientific work.

The medal, which is awarded annually, recognizes

significant contributions to the advancement of

Mendel’s scientific and cultural legacy.

Daniel L. Hartl (born 1943) is the Higgins

Professor of Biology in the Department of

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard

University. He also is a Past President of the

Genetics Society of America and the Society for

Molecular Biology and Evolution, and very well

known as a population geneticist. He has authored

more than 400 scientific articles and more than 35

books in various aspects of genetics and

evolution.

Daniel L. Hartl worked extensively with Vítězslav

Orel (former head of the Mendelianum in

1965-1989) on countering some of the revisionist

history of Mendel in the 1990s, especially in

response to R. C. Olby’s publications. He recently

published an article on Mendel in 2022, and

published others in previous years. The awarding

of the Mendel Memorial Medal is a tribute to his

dedication and achievements in this field. Here is a

selection of some of his key publications on

Mendel:

• Hartl D. L. (2022). Gregor Johann Mendel:

From peasant to priest, pedagogue, and

prelate. Proceedings of the National Academy

of Sciences of the United States of America,

119(30), e2121953119. https://doi.org/10.1073

/pnas.2121953119

• Franklin, A., Edwards, A. W. F., Fairbanks, D.

J., Hartl, D, L. & Seidenfeld, T. (2008). Ending

the Mendel-Fisher Controversy. University of

Pittsburgh Press. https://upittpress.org/books

/9780822959861/

• Hartl, D. L., & Fairbanks, D. J. (2007). Mud

sticks: on the alleged falsification of Mendel's

data. Genetics, 175(3), 975–979.

https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/175.3.975

• Orel, V., & Hartl, D. L. (1994). Controversies in

the Interpretation of Mendel’s Discovery.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,

16(3), 423–464. http://www.jstor.org/stable

/23331700

• Hartl, D. L., & Orel, V. (1992). What did Gregor

Mendel think he discovered? Genetics, 131(2),

245–253. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics

/131.2.245