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The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.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 the field.
Shyamala Gopalan [a] (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, [5] whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. [6]
Father Francesco Lana-Terzi [29] and Abbas ibn Firnas [1] [30] [31] Ibn Firnas built the first human carrying glider and is reputed to have attempted two successful flights. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Wrote Prodromo alla Arte Maestra (1670); first to describe the geometry and physics of a flying vessel
Mendel, known as the "father of modern genetics," chose to study variation in plants in his monastery's 2 hectares (4.9 acres) experimental garden. [26] Mendel was assisted in his experimental design by Aleksander Zawadzki while his superior abbot Napp wrote to discourage him, saying that the Bishop giggled when informed of the detailed ...
Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms.
[221] [222] [223] Aristotle's work remains largely unknown to modern scientists, though zoologists sometimes mention him as the father of biology [176] or in particular of marine biology. [224] Practising zoologists are unlikely to adhere to Aristotle's chain of being, but its influence is still perceptible in the use of the terms "lower" and ...
[17] [18] He was born through an extramarital affair [19] of his father, Swedish biochemist Sune Bergström (1916–2004), [5] who, like his son, became a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (in 1982). [20] Pääbo is his mother's only child; he has via his father's marriage a half-brother (also born in 1955). [21]
He then joined the Government College at Lahore as a professor of biology founding the botany department in 1919. He was a founding member of the Indian Botanical Society in 1920 and edited its journal.