Father of Various Branches of Biology
Science is very important subject in every competitive exams. There are 3 parts of science Which is Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Today i am described the different fields or branches of Biology.
Below is the of different types of branches of Biology and their Father:
List of Father of Various Branches of Biology
S.N. | Name of Branch | Name of Father |
1 | Father of Anatomy | Herophilus |
2 | Father of Modern Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
3 | Father of Antiseptic surgery | J. Lister |
4 | Father of Antibiotics | Alexander Fleming |
5 | Father of Ayurveda | Charaka |
6 | Father of ATP cycle | Lipmann |
7 | Father of Bacteriology | Robert Koch |
8 | Father of Biology | Aristotle |
9 | Father of Blood circulation | William Harvey |
10 | Father of Blood groups | Land Steiner |
11 | Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
12 | Father of Modern Botany | K. Bauhin |
13 | Father of Bryology | Johann Hedwig |
14 | Father of Chemotherapy | Paul Erlich |
15 | Father of Comparative anatomy | George Leopold Cuvier (1769-1832) |
16 | Father of Comparative zoology | Cuvier |
17 | Father of Concept of Evolution | Empedocles |
18 | Father of Conditioned reflex | I.P Pavlov |
19 | Father of Cytology | Robert Hooke |
20 | Father of Modern Cytology, | Carl P. Swanson |
21 | Father of DNA Finger printing | Alec Jeffry |
22 | Father of ECG(Electrocardiography) | Einthoven |
23 | Father of Embryology | Kaspar Friedrich Wolff |
24 | Father of modern Embryology | Karl Ernst Von Baer |
25 | Father of Endocrinology | Thomas Addison |
26 | Father of Epidemiology | John Snow |
27 | Father of Ethology | Konrad Lorentz |
28 | Father of Eugenics | Francis Galton |
29 | Father of Experimental Genetics | T.H. Morgan |
30 | Father of Experimental physiology | Galen |
31 | Father of Fermentation | Louis Pasteur |
32 | Father of Genetic engineering | Paul Berg |
33 | Father of Genetics | G.J. Mendel |
34 | Father of Modern Genetics | W. Bateson |
35 | Father of Gerontology (Ageing) | Korenchevsk |
36 | Father of Haploid Genetics | Dodge (Neurospora genetics) |
37 | Father of Histology | Francis Bichat |
38 | Father of Histology (Microscopic anatomy) | Malpighi |
39 | Father of Homoeopathy | Samuel Hahnemann |
40 | Father of Human genetics /Biochemical genetics | Arachibald Garrod |
41 | Father of Immunology | Edward Jenner |
42 | Father of Indian Algology (Phycology) | M.O.P. Iyengar |
43 | Father of Indian Bryology | S.R Kashyap |
44 | Father of Indian Ecology | R. Misra |
45 | Father of Indian embryology | P. Maheshwari |
46 | Father of Indian mycology and plant Pathology | E.J. Butler |
47 | Father of Indian Palaeoboatny | Birbal Sahni |
48 | Father of Indian Palynology | P.K.K Nair |
49 | Father of Indian systematic botany (Taxonomy) | H. Santapau |
50 | Father of Medicine | Hippocrates |
51 | Father of Modern Microbiology | Louis Pasteur |
52 | Father of Microscopy | Marcello Malpighi |
53 | Father of Microscopy and Microbiology | Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
54 | Father of Mosaic theory | Wilhelm Roux |
55 | Father of Mutation theory of evolution | Hugo de Vries |
56 | Father of Mycology | P.A Micheli |
57 | Father of Palaeontology | Leonardo da Vinci |
58 | Father of Modern Palaeontology | Cuvier |
59 | Father of Palynology | Erdtman |
60 | Father of Modern Pathology | Rudolph Virchow |
61 | Father of Plant anatomy | N. Grew |
62 | Father of Plant Ecology | Warming |
63 | Father of Plant pathology | De Bary |
64 | Father of Plant physiology | Stephan Hales |
65 | Father of Polio vaccine | Jonas Salk |
66 | Father of Quantitative or Polygenic Inheritance | Kolreuter |
67 | Father of Regulative theory of embryonic development | Hans Driesch |
68 | Father of Special creation theory | Father Sqrez |
69 | Father of Stress physiology | Hans Selye |
70 | Father of Taxonomy | Carolus Linnaeus |
71 | Father of Modern Taxonomy | Carolus Linnaeus |
72 | Father of Zoology | Aristotle |