List of Father's of different fields (Science)

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List of Father's of Science

In this post, we are going to learn about some of the important scientists / inventors / mathematicians of the past and the present who made significant contributions in the field of Science and Medicine and were acknowledged as Father of their respective fields. 

List of Father's of different fields (Science)

  • Father of Science – Galileo Galilei.
  • Father of Geography – Eratosthenes.
    • Father of Regional Geography – Karl Ritter.
    • Father of Systematic Geography – Alexander Von Humbolt.
  • Father of Modern Geology – James Hutton.
  • Father of Modern Geology in India – James Rennell.
  • Father of Civil Engineering – John Smeaton.
  • Father of Civil Engineering in India – Sir Mokshagundam Vishveshwarayya.
  • Father of Architecture – Imhotep.
  • Father of Agriculture – Norman Borlaug.
  • Father of Modern Democracy – John Locke.
  • Father of Modern Computer Science – Alan Turing.
  • Father of Scientific Management – Frederick Winslow Taylor.
  • Father of Modern Finance – Eugene F. Fama.
  • Father of Modern Economics – Adam Smith.
  • Father of Sociology – Auguste Comte.



Physics

  • Father of Physics – Albert Einstein.
  • Mother of Modern Physics  – Marie Curie.
  • Father of Nuclear Physics – Ernest Rutherford.
  • Father of Modern Astronomy – Nicolaus Copernicus.
  • Father of Electricity  – Benjamin Franklin / Michael Faraday (for Kerala PSC).
  • Father of Electrical Engineering – Michael Faraday.
  • Father of Thermodynamics – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot.
  • Father of Relativity – Albert Einstein.
  • Father of Aviation – George Cayley.
  • Father of Quantum Mechanics – Max Planck.
  • Father of Atom Bomb – J. Robert Oppenheimer.
  • Father of Hydrogen Bomb  – Edward Teller.
  • Father of Radio Science in India – J. C. Bose.
  • Father of Indian Nuclear Science – Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
  • Father of the Indian Space Programme – Dr. Vikram Sarabhai.
  • Father of Quantum Mechanics – Max Planck.

Chemistry

  • Father of Modern Chemistry – Antoine Lavoisier.
  • Father of Organic Chemistry – Friedrich Wöhler.
  • Father of Physical Chemistry – Wilhelm Ostwald.
  • Father of Nuclear Chemistry – Otto Hahn.
  • Father of Modern Biochemistry  – Carl Alexander Neuberg.
  • Father of Indian Chemistry – P.C. Roy.
  • Father of Green Chemistry – Paul Anastas.
  • Father of Periodic Table – Dmitri Mendeleev.

Biology

  • Father of Biology – Aristotle.
  • Father of Botany – Theophrastus.
  • Father of Zoology – Aristotle.
  • Father of Concept of Evolution – Charles Darwin (for Kerala PSC) / Empedocles.*
  • Father of Microbiology – Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek.
  • Father of Modern Bacteriology – Robert Koch.
  • Father of Nanotechnology – Richard P. Feynman (for Kerala PSC) / Richard Smalley.*
  • Father of Taxonomy – Carl Linnaeus.
  • Father of Binomial Nomenclature – Carl Linnaeus.
  • Father of Cloning – Ian Wilmut. 
  • Father of Biodiversity – Edward O. Wilson.
  • Father of Plant Pathology – Heinrich Anton de Bary.
  • Father of Palynology – Erdtman.
  • Father of Modern Ecology – Eugene P. Odum.
  • Father of the Green Revolution – Norman Ernest Borlaug.
  • Father of the Green Revolution in India – M. S. Swaminathan.
  • Father of Surgery – Sushruta.
  • Father of Psychology – Wilhelm Wundt.


Mathematics

  • Father of Mathematics – Archimedes.
  • Father of Numbers – Pythagoras.
  • Father of Geometry – Euclid.
  • Father of Trigonometry – Hipparchus.
  • Father of Algebra – Diophantus.
  • Father of Calculus – Sir Issac Newton.

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