Introduction
The article Father of Different Fields presents the list of important contributors in different fields particularly related to Science & Technology. This article plays a prominent role in GA/GK preparation of many competitive exams.
List
People who are considered a "Father" or "Mother" (or founding father or founding mother) of a scientific field are primarily regarded as those to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field.
Galileo Galilei is considered to be the father of modern science. According to Dr. Stephen Hawking and other prominent scientists, Galileo contributed more to modern science than any other figure in history. Galileo Galilei is also considered to be the father of modern physics, astronomy and observational science.
List of Father of Different Fields of Science & Technology:
| Field | Name |
|---|---|
| Father of Agronomy | Peter – De- Cresenji |
| Father of Agriculture | Norman Borlaug |
| Father of Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
| Father of Atom Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Father of Architecture | Imhotep |
| Father of Aviation | George Cayley |
| Father of Botony | Theophrastus |
| Father of Biology | Aristotle |
| Father of Bacteriology | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Robert Koch / Ferdinand Cohn / Louis Pasteur |
| Father of Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
| Father of Blood Circulation | William Harvey |
| 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 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 Surgery | Sushruta |
| Father of Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Father of Television | Philo Farnsworth |
| Father of the American Constitution | James Madison |
| Father of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B.R Ambedkar |
| Father of the Green Revolution | Norman Ernest Borlaug |
| Father of the Green Revolution in India | M. S. Swaminathan |
| Father of Western Medicine | Hippocrates |