The following is a list of significant men and women known for being the father, mother, or considered the founders mostly in Western societies in a field, listed by category. In most non-science fields, the title of being the “father” is debatable.
Sl No. |
Fields |
Father of that field |
1 |
American Football |
Walter Camp |
2 |
Astronomy |
Copernicus |
3 |
Ayurveda |
Dhanwantari |
4 |
Biology |
Aristotle |
5 |
Botany |
Theophrastus |
6 |
Chemistry |
Antoine Lavoisier |
7 |
Classical mechanics |
Isaac Newton |
8 |
Comedy |
Aristophanes |
9 |
Computer |
Charles Babbage |
10 |
Computer Science |
George Boole and Alan Turing |
11 |
Economics |
Adam Smith |
12 |
Electricity |
Benjamin Franklin |
13 |
English poetry |
GeoffreyChaucer |
14 |
Evolution |
Charles Darwin |
15 |
Genetics |
|
16 |
Geometry |
Euclid of Alexandria |
17 |
History |
Herodotus |
18 |
Homeopathy |
Heinemann |
19 |
Humanism |
Francesco Petrarca |
20 |
Indian Green Revolution |
M.S. Swaminathan |
21 |
India’s Communication Revolution |
Sam Pitroda |
22 |
Internet |
Vint Cerf |
23 |
Laptop |
Bill Moggridge |
24 |
Medicine |
Hippocrates |
25 |
Microbiology |
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |
26 |
Microscopy |
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek |
27 |
Mobile Phone |
Martin Cooper |
28 |
Modern Astronomy |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
29 |
modern Medicine |
Hippocrates |
30 |
modern Olympic |
Pierre De Coubertin |
31 |
Modern physics |
Galileo Galilei |
32 |
Nuclear Chemistry |
Otto Hahn |
33 |
Nuclear physics |
Ernest Rutherford |
34 |
Nuclear science |
Marie Curie , Pierre Curie |
35 |
Numbers |
Pythagoras |
36 |
Pentium Chip |
Vinod Dham |
37 |
Periodic table |
Dmitri Mendeleev |
38 |
Plastic Surgery |
Sir Harold Gillies |
39 |
Psychology |
Sigmund Freud |
40 |
Scientific Management |
Frederick Winslow Taylor |
41 |
Surgery |
Sushruta |
42 |
Telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
43 |
Television |
Vladimir K. Zworykin |
44 |
American Constitution |
James Madison |
45 |
Green Revolution |
Norman Ernest Borlaug |
46 |
Green Revolution in India |
M.S Swaminathan |
47 |
Indian Constitution |
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar |
48 |
Walter Camp |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
49 |
Western Medicine |
Hippocrates |