FATHER OF DIFFERENT FIELDS OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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The following is a list of significant men and women known for being the Father, mother, or considered the founders mostly in a field, listed by category. Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as “a” rather than “the” father or mother of fields, the title of being the “father” is debatable.
List of Fathers of Various Fields :
Name of Field | Name of Father |
Father of Ayurveda | Dhanwantari |
Father of Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
Father of Atom Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Father of Aviation | Sir George Cayley |
Father of Biology | Aristotle |
Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
Father of Computer | Charles Babbage |
Father of Computer Science | George Boole and Alan Turing |
Father of Economics | Adam Smith |
Father of Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
Father of Electronics | Michael Faraday |
Father of Email | Ray Tomlinson |
Father of English Poetry | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Father of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
Father of Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
Father of Geometry | Euclid |
Father of Humanism | Francesco Petrarca |
Father of Immunology | Edward Jenner |
Father of Internet | Vint Cerf |
Father of Laptop | Bill Moggridge |
Father of Microbiology | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
Father of Microscopy | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
Father of Mobile Phone | Martin Cooper |
Father of Modern Astronomy | Nicolaus Copernicus |
Father of Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
Father of Modern Olympic | Pierre De Coubertin |
Father of Modern Physics | Galileo Galilei |
Father of Nanotechnology | Richard Smalley |
Father of New France | Samuel de Champlain |
Father of Western Medicine | Hippocrates |
Father of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar |
Father of the Green Revolution in India | M. S. Swaminathan |
Father of the Green Revolution | Norman Ernest Borlaug |
Father of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B.R Ambedkar |
Father of the American Constitution | James Madison |
Father of Television | Philo Farnsworth |
Father of Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
Father of Surgery | Sushruta |
Father of Nuclear Chemistry | Otto Hahn |
Father of Nuclear Physics | Ernest Rutherford |
Father of Nuclear Science | Marie Curie and Pierre Curie |
Father of Numbers | Pythagoras |
Father of Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
Father of Philosophy | Rene Descartes |
Father of Plastic Surgery | Sir Harold Gillies |
Father of Political Science | Aristotle |
Father of Psychology | Sigmund Freud |
Father of Sanstrik Grammar | Panini |
Father of Scientific Management | Frederick Winslow Taylor |
Father of Sociology | Auguste comte |
Father of Optics | Ibn al-Haytham |
Father of Green Revolution in the world | Norman Earnest Borlaug |
Father of Zoology | Aristotle |
Father of Endocrinology | Thomas addison |
Father of Modern Botany | Linnaeus |
Father of Bacteriology | Leeuwenhoek |
Father of Evolutionary Ideas | Empedocles |
Father of Modern Genetics | T. H. Morgan |
Father of Cytology | Robert Hooke |
Father of Mycology | Micheli |
Father of Plant Physiology | Stephen Hales |
Father of Indian Paleobotany | Birbal Sahani |
Father of Indian Ecology | R. Mishra |
Father of Eugenics | Francis Galton |
Father of Mutation | Hugo De Vries |
Father of blood circulation | William Harvey |
Father of blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
Father of Taxonomy | Carolus Linnaeus |
Father of Radiation Genetics | H. J. Muller |
Father of Paleontology | Leonardo da Vinci |
Father of Genetic Engineering | Paul Berg |
Father of Indian Phycology-(study of algae) | O. P. Iyengar |
Father of Gene Therapy | Anderson |
Father of Polygenic Inheritance | Kolreuter |
Father of Palynology | Erdtman |
Objective Questions on Father of different Fields frequently asked in SSC,CDS,NDA,PSC, Railway and other competitive examinations –
1. Who among the following is known as Father of Electronics?
- James Madison
- Galileo Galilei
- Michael Faraday
- Alexander Graham Bell
2. Euclid is known as Father of which of the following fields?
- Geometry
- Biology
- Surgery
- Microbiology
3. Who among the following is known as Father of Genetics?
- Charles Darwin
- Gregor Mendel
- Benjamin Franklin
- Hippocrates
4. Marie Curie and Pierre Curie are known as Father of which of the following fields?
- Modern Physics
- Computer Science
- Nuclear Chemistry
- Nuclear Science
5. Who among the following is known as Father of Surgery?
- Hippocrates
- Sushruta
- Sir Harold Gillies
- Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
Answers : 1(3), 2(1),3(2),4(4), 5(2)
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