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List of People regarded as Father of a Scientific Field

Father of Biology : Aristole

Father of Modern Biology: Linnaeus

Father of Antibiotics : Alexander Flemin

Father of Taxonomy : Carolus Linnaeus

Father of Immunology : Edward

Jenner

Father of Microbiology : Anton van

Leenuwenhoek

Father of Modern Microbiology :

Louis Pasteur

Father of Medical Microbiology :

Robert Koch

Father of Pathology : Rudolph

Virchow

Father of Bacteriology : Robert KochFather of Virology : W.M.Stanley

Father of Embryology : Aristotle

Father of Modern Embryology : Ernst

Von Baer

Father of Physiology : Stephan Hales

Father of Modern experimental

physiology : Calude Bernard

Father of Genetics : Rev. Gregor

Mendel

Father of Modern Genetics : Bateson

Father of Human Genetics/

Biochemical genetics : Arachibald

Garrod

Father of Experimental Genetics : T.H.

Morgan

Father of Haploid Genetics /

Neurospora Genetics : Dodge

Father of Ecology : Theophrastus

Father of Cloning : Ian Willmut

Father of Plant anatomy : Grew

Father of Histology (Microscopic

anatomy) : Malpighi

Father of Cytology : Robert Hooke

Father of modern Cytology : Swanson

Father of Paleontology : Leonard da

Vinci

Father of modern Paleontology :

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Cuvier

Father of Concept of Evolution:

Empedocles

Father of Botany: Theophrastus

Father of Modern Botany : Bauhin

Father of Zoology : Aristotle

Father of Biochemistry : Liebig

Father of Epidemiology : John Snow

Father of Plant Pathology : de Bary

Father of Modern Pathology : Rudolf

Virchow

Father of Genetic Engineering : Paul

Berg

Father of Gene therapy : Anderson

Father of Ethology : Konard Lorentz

Father of Endocrinology : ThomasAddison

Father of Eugenics : Galton

Father of Gerantology : Korenchevsk

Father of Palynology : Erdtman

Father of Stress physiology : Hans

Selye

Father of Electrocardiogr aphy :

Einthoven

Father of DNA Fingerprinting : Alec

Jeffery

Father of Mycology : Micheli

Father of Bryology : Hedwig

Father of Phycology:

Father of ATP cycle: Lipmann

Father of Chemotherapy :

Father of Anatomy : Herophilus

Father of Modern Anatomy : Andreas

Vesalius

Father of actinobiology / radiation

biology : HJVS Muller

Father of Homeopathy : Hahnemann

Father of Ayurveda : Charka

Father of Surgery and Plastic Surgery

: Susruta

Father of Blood circulation : William

Harvey

Father of Medicine : Hippocrates

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Father of Blood Group : Landsteiner

Father of Polio Vaccine : Jonas Salk

Father of Green Revolution: Norman

Borlaug