Fathers of Science
Science has been shaped by brilliant minds throughout history. Here, we honor some of the most influential figures, often called "Fathers" of their respective fields, for their monumental contributions.
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| Name | Field | Father of |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Maslow | Humanistic Psychology | Father of Humanistic Psychology |
| Alan Turing | Computer Science | Father of Modern Computing |
| Albert Bandura | Social Psychology | Father of Social Learning Theory |
| Albert Einstein | Physics | Father of Modern Physics |
| Albert Howard | Organic Farming | Father of Organic Farming |
| Alexander Fleming | Medicine | Father of Antibiotics |
| Alfred Adler | Individual Psychology | Father of Individual Psychology |
| Alfred Nobel | Chemistry | Father of Dynamite |
| Alfred Wegener | Geology | Father of Continental Drift |
| Andreas Vesalius | Medicine | Father of Anatomy |
| Andreas Vesalius | Anatomy | Father of Human Anatomy |
| Antoine Lavoisier | Chemistry | Father of Modern Chemistry |
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | Microbiology | Father of Microscopy |
| Archimedes | Mathematics | Father of Calculus |
| Aristotle | Biology | Father of Ancient Taxonomy and Zoology |
| Aristotle | Logic | Father of Logic |
| Aristotle | Biology | Father of Biology |
| August Comte | Sociology | Father of Sociology |
| Avicenna (Ibn Sina) | Medicine | Father of Early Medicine |
| B.F. Skinner | Behavioral Psychology | Father of Operant Conditioning |
| Benjamin Franklin | Electricity | Father of Electricity |
| Blaise Pascal | Mathematics | Father of Probability Theory |
| Carl Alexander Neuberg | Biochemistry | Father of Biochemistry |
| Carl Gauss | Mathematics | Father of Number Theory |
| Carl Jung | Analytical Psychology | Father of Analytical Psychology |
| Carl Linnaeus | Biology | Father of Taxonomy |
| Charles Babbage | Computer Science | Father of the Computer |
| Charles Darwin | Biology | Father of Theory of Evolution |
| Claude Shannon | Computer Science | Father of Information Theory |
| D.N. Walia | Agrometeorology | Father of Agrometeorology |
| Daniel Hillel | Soil Physics | Father of Micro-Irrigation |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | Chemistry | Father of the Periodic Table |
| E.H. Faulkner | Minimum Tillage | Father of Minimum Tillage |
| Edward Jenner | Medicine | Father of Vaccination |
| Edward Thorndike | Educational Psychology | Father of Educational Psychology |
| Edwin Hubble | Astronomy | Father of Extragalactic Astronomy |
| Enrico Fermi | Physics | Father of Nuclear Reactor |
| Erik Erikson | Developmental Psychology | Father of Psychosocial Development |
| Ernest Rutherford | Physics | Father of Nuclear Physics |
| Ernst Haeckel | Ecology | Father of Ecology |
| Ernst Mayr | Biology | Father of Evolutionary Biology |
| Euclid | Mathematics | Father of Geometry |
| Ferdinand de Saussure | Linguistics | Father of Modern Linguistics |
| Francis Bacon | Philosophy | Father of Empiricism |
| Francis Crick | Genetics | Father of Molecular Biology |
| Francis Galton | Psychometrics | Father of Psychometrics |
| Franz Boas | Anthropology | Father of Anthropology |
| Fritz Perls | Gestalt Psychology | Father of Gestalt Therapy |
| G. Stanley Hall | Child Psychology | Father of Child Psychology |
| G.B. Triplett | Zero Tillage | Father of Zero Tillage |
| G.D. Smith | Soil Taxonomy | Father of Soil Taxonomy |
| Galileo Galilei | Astronomy | Father of Observational Astronomy |
| George Washington Carver | Agriculture | Father of Agricultural Chemistry |
| Georges Cuvier | Paleontology | Father of Paleontology |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Mathematics | Father of Calculus |
| Gregor Mendel | Genetics | Father of Modern Genetics |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Physics | Father of Wireless Communication |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | Physics | Father of Electromagnetism |
| Henri Becquerel | Physics | Father of Radioactivity |
| Hermann Ebbinghaus | Memory Research | Father of Memory Studies |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | Physics | Father of Thermodynamics |
| Hippocrates | Medicine | Father of Western Medicine |
| Hugh Hammond Bennett | Soil Conservation | Father of Soil Conservation |
| Hugo Münsterberg | Industrial Psychology | Father of Industrial Psychology |
| Ibn al-Nafis | Medicine | Father of Circulatory Physiology |
| Ingo Potrykus | Golden Rice | Father of Golden Rice |
| Isaac Asimov | Robotics | Father of Robotics |
| Isaac Newton | Physics | Father of Classical Physics |
| Ivan Pavlov | Behavioral Psychology | Father of Classical Conditioning |
| J.B. Boussingault | Field Plot Technique | Father of Field Plot Technique |
| James Clerk Maxwell | Electromagnetism | Father of Electromagnetic Theory |
| James Hutton | Geology | Father of Modern Geology |
| Jean Piaget | Developmental Psychology | Father of Cognitive Development |
| Jethro Tull | Tillage | Father of Modern Tillage |
| Johannes Kepler | Astronomy | Father of Celestial Mechanics |
| John B. Watson | Behavioral Psychology | Father of Behaviorism |
| John Dalton | Chemistry | Father of Atomic Theory |
| Joseph Priestley | Chemistry | Father of Modern Chemistry |
| Justus von Liebig | Agricultural Chemistry | Father of Agricultural Chemistry |
| Kanitkar | Dryland Agriculture | Father of Dryland Agriculture |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Engineering | Father of Engineering Design |
| Leonhard Euler | Mathematics | Father of Graph Theory |
| Lev Vygotsky | Developmental Psychology | Father of Sociocultural Theory |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | Horticulture | Father of American Horticulture |
| Louis Pasteur | Microbiology | Father of Microbiology |
| M.H. Marigowda | Horticulture in India | Father of Indian Horticulture |
| M.S. Swaminathan | Agriculture | Father of the Green Revolution in India |
| Marie Curie | Physics | Father of (Mother of) Radioactivity |
| Martin Seligman | Positive Psychology | Father of Positive Psychology |
| Max Planck | Physics | Father of Quantum Mechanics |
| Michael Faraday | Physics | Father of Electromagnetic Induction |
| Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi | Mathematics | Father of Algebra |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Astronomy | Father of Modern Astronomy |
| Niels Bohr | Physics | Father of Quantum Theory |
| Nikola Tesla | Engineering | Father of Modern Electricity |
| Norman Borlaug | Agriculture | Father of Green Revolution |
| Paul Dirac | Physics | Father of Quantum Electrodynamics |
| Pietro de' Crescenzi | Agronomy | Father of Agronomy |
| Ray Tomlinson | Computer Science | Father of Email |
| Richard Feynman | Nanotechnology | Father of Modern Nanotechnology |
| Robert Hooke | Biology | Father of Cell Theory |
| Rudolf Virchow | Medicine | Father of Modern Pathology |
| S.N. Winogradsky | Soil Microbiology | Father of Soil Microbiology |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychology | Father of Psychoanalysis |
| Stephen Hawking | Physics | Father of Black Hole Theory |
| Sushruta | Medicine | Father of Surgery |
| Theophrastus | Botany | Father of Botany |
| Thomas Addison | Medicine | Father of Endocrinology |
| Thomas Edison | Engineering | Father of Invention |
| Thomas Young | Physics | Father of Wave Theory |
| V. Kurien | Dairy Farming | Father of the White Revolution |
| V.V. Dokuchaev | Soil Science | Father of Soil Science |
| Vladimir Vernadsky | Geochemistry | Father of Biogeochemistry |
| Wilhelm Wundt | Experimental Psychology | Father of Psychology |
| William Herschel | Astronomy | Father of Infrared Astronomy |
| William James | American Psychology | Father of American Psychology |
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