Tag: Mendel
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Gregor Mendel, Father of Genetics and original hacker
At Mendeley, we took the inspiration for our name from Gregor Mendel, so it’s only proper that we would take a moment to recognize him on this day, the 189th anniversary of his birth. There’s also been a lot of attention given to the use and misuse of the word hacker in the news recently,…
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From Climax Control Gel to German Shepherd Dogs: The Top 5 Misspellings of Mendeley
Back during the conceptual phase of the service, Jan, Paul, and Victor were thinking about what to call their product. The working name at the time was “Literacula”, because it sucked the metadata right out of PDFs. While this was a descriptive name, it was eventually decided that it was far too silly. No one…
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