Dr. Mian Endelecki is a character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
About Mian[]
Dr. Mian Endelecki was a specialist in genomic analysis operating during the reign of Emperor Cleon I on Trantor. A woman with silver hair but a youthful face. She was renowned for her expertise, though she lamented the declining funding and public distrust of science that made her work difficult. Her most notable involvement was at the request of Hari Seldon, who hired her to perform a complete genomic sequencing on his granddaughter, Wanda Seldon. Seldon hoped to find a genetic marker for her emerging mentalic abilities, which he believed were vital to the future of psychohistory.
Dr. Endelecki performed the procedure with professionalism, carefully explaining the process to Wanda and her family and obtaining the necessary cellular sample. The analysis took over a month to complete. Her final conclusion was that while Wanda's genome contained the typical number of imperfect genes found in any human, there was nothing genetically anomalous to explain her purported mental powers. She explained to a disappointed Seldon that the complexity of the human brain, governed by thousands of genes, made it impossible to isolate a specific "pattern" for extraordinary mental ability with the science of the time. Her work, while not providing Seldon with the answers he sought, was a definitive dead end in his search for a biological basis for mentalics, forcing him to seek other methods to find individuals like Wanda.
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