Father’s of Various Fields & Subjects
In every era, there are those select few who come up with transformative ideas that change the course of history. All of them contributed in some way or another to economical innovations or topics of study. Such people are respected nowadays with terms like “Father” of something or the other and it is because of them that we now possess so many technologies and advances through various fields. This website captures all those incredible/scientific personalities which served in the technological field and philosophy as well as literature. If you are an eager learner or a teacher or even a student, feel free to view the website and learn more about those incredible people who changed the world we live in drastically.
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Father’s of Various Fields & Subjects
Here is a curated list of individuals recognized as the “fathers” of various fields and subjects, based on information from educational and general knowledge sources:
| Subjects and Fields | Names |
| Father of the Nation | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Father of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar |
| Father of the American Constitution | James Madison |
| Father of Modern India | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Father of History | Herodotus |
| Father of Indian History | Megasthenes |
| Father of Geography | Eratosthenes |
| Father of Economics | Adam Smith |
| Father of Mathematics | Archimedes |
| Father of Geometry | Euclid |
| Father of Algebra | Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi |
| Father of Trigonometry | Hipparchus |
| Father of Physics | Albert Einstein |
| Father of Nuclear Physics | Ernest Rutherford |
| Father of Nuclear Science in India | Homi Jehangir Bhabha |
| Father of Chemistry | Antoine Lavoisier |
| Father of Indian Chemistry | Prafulla Chandra Ray |
| Father of Biology | Aristotle |
| Father of Zoology | Aristotle |
| Father of Embryology | Aristotle |
| Father of Political Science | Aristotle |
| Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
| Father of Microbiology / Microscopy | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
| Father of Medicine | Hippocrates |
| Father of Western Medicine / Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
| Father of Homeopathy | Smuel Hahnemann |
| Father of Ayurveda | Charaka |
| Father of Surgery | Sushruta |
| Father of Genetics | Gregor Johann Mendel |
| Father of Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
| Father of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| Father of Numbers | Pythagoras |
| Father of Statistics | Ronald Fisher |
| Father of Indian Railways | Lord Dalhousie |
| Father of Robotics | Nikola Tesla |
| Father of Electricity | Michael Faraday |
| Father of Nanotechnology | Richard Feynman |
| Father of Modern Astronomy | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| Father of Missile Program | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| Father of Radio Science in India | Jagdish Chandra Bose |
| Father of Space Program | Vikram Sarabhai |
| Father of Pentium Chip | Vinod Dham |
| Father of Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| Father of Atomic Theory | John Dalton |
| Father of Atomic Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Father of Artificial Intelligence | John Mccarthy |
| Father of Hydrogen Bomb | Edward Teller |
| Father of Vaccination / Father of immunology | Edward Jenner |
| Father of Civil Aviation | J. R. D. Tata (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata) |
| Father of Computer | Charles Babbage |
| Father of Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Father of Indian Navy | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj |
| Father of Indian Air Force | Subroto Mukherjee |
| Father of C Language | Dennis Ritchie |
| Father of Indian IT Industry | Faqir Chand Kohli |
| Father of Internet | Vinton Cerf |
| Father of the World Wide Web | Tim Berners-Lee |
| Father of Search Engine | Alan Emtage |
| Father of Sanskrit | Panini |
| Father of Green Revolution | M.S. Swaminathan |
| Father of Yellow Revolution | Sam Pitroda |
| Father of White Revolution | Verghese Kurien |
| Father of Blue Revolution | Hiralal Chaudhary |
| Father of Comic Books | Stan Lee (Father of Marvel Comics) |
| Father of Indian Cinema | Dadasaheb Phalke |
| Father of Bengali Cinema | Hiralal Sen |
| Father of Bengali Sonnets | Michael Madhusudan Dutt |
| Father of Bengali Prose | Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar |
| Father of Bangla Literature / Novel | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Father of Hindi | Bhartendu Harishchandra |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Here are some frequently asked questions (FAQs) in competitive exams related to the Fathers of Various Fields & Subjects. These are especially useful for exams like SSC, UPSC, Railways, Banking, and State-level exams.
- Who is known as the Father of Science?
Answer: Galileo Galilei - Who is regarded as the Father of Modern Physics?
Answer: Albert Einstein - Who is called the Father of Classical Physics?
Answer: Isaac Newton - Who is known as the Father of Chemistry?
Answer: Antoine Lavoisier - Who is the Father of Biology?
Answer: Aristotle - Who is the Father of Modern Biology?
Answer: Charles Darwin - Who is called the Father of Mathematics?
Answer: Archimedes - Who is known as the Father of Algebra?
Answer: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi - Who is the Father of Geometry?
Answer: Euclid - Who is the Father of Medicine?
Answer: Hippocrates - Who is known as the Father of Surgery in India?
Answer: Sushruta - Who is the Father of Modern Surgery?
Answer: Ambroise Paré - Who is known as the Father of Botany?
Answer: Theophrastus - Who is the Father of Zoology?
Answer: Aristotle - Who is called the Father of Genetics?
Answer: Gregor Mendel - Who is the Father of Modern Astronomy?
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus - Who is regarded as the Father of Geology?
Answer: James Hutton - Who is considered the Father of Modern Computer Science?
Answer: Alan Turing - Who is known as the Father of the Indian Space Program?
Answer: Vikram Sarabhai - Who is known as the Father of Modern Physics?
Answer: Albert Einstein - Who is known as the Father of Medicine?
Answer: Hippocrates - Who is referred to as the Father of Economics?
Answer: Adam Smith
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