The article will talk about the Father’s of various fields that are important for the General Awareness Section of various competitive exams.
Candidates preparing for upcoming Government exams must go through the list of Father’s of different fields as general knowledge or awareness forms an important part of the syllabus of these examinations.
Who is the Father of Hydrogen Bomb? Edward Teller invented the hydrogen bomb in 1952 and is renowned as the Father of the hydrogen bomb.
Who is the Father of Email? Ray Tomlinson is known as the Father of Email.
Questions such as these are covered in the general knowledge part of the government exams. Therefore, run down the list of fathers of various fields along with the sample questions given below. Candidates can also download the list of father’s of different fields in PDF format.
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Father’s of Different Fields
The table below highlights the list of father’s of different fields. Candidates can download the list of 100+ father’s of various fields in PDF Format for convenience in preparation.
List of Father’s of Various Fields | |
Father of Different Fields | Names |
Father of Missile Program | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam) |
Father of Economics | Adam Smith |
Father of Modern Computer | Alan Turing |
Father of Relativity | Albert Einstein |
Father of DNA Fingerprinting | Alec John Jeffreys
Lalji Singh (India) |
Father of Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
Father of Comic Books | Stan Lee (Father of Marvel Comics)
Anant Pai (Father of Indian Comics) |
Father of Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
Father of Modern Chemistry | Antoine Lavoisier |
Father of Microbiology/Microscopy | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
Father of Comedy | Aristophanes |
Father of Biology/ Zoology/ Embryology/ Political Science | Aristotle |
Father of Sociology | Auguste Comte |
Father of Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
Father of Paleobotany | Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart
Birbal Sahni (India) |
Father of Modern Biochemistry | Carl Alexander Neuberg |
Father of Classification/ Father of Taxonomy | Carl Linnaeus |
Father of Computer | Charles Babbage |
Father of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
Father of Physiology | Claude Bernard |
Father of Cinema | Dadasaheb Phalke (Dhundiraj Govind Phalke) (India) |
Father of Modern Cinema | David Wark Griffith |
Father of Ayurveda | Dhanwantari |
Father of Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
Father of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar) |
Father of Vaccination/ Father of immunology | Edward Jenner |
Father of Biodiversity | Edward O Wilson |
Father of Hydrogen Bomb | Edward Teller |
Father of Geography | Eratosthenes |
Father of Nuclear Physics | Ernest Rutherford |
Father of Geometry | Euclid |
Father of Modern Finance | Eugene F. Fama |
Father of Modern Ecology | Eugene P. Odum |
Father of Humanism | Francesco Petrarca |
Father of Eugenics | Francis Galton |
Father of Scientific Management | Frederick Winslow Taylor |
Father of Gene Therapy | French Anderson |
Father of Modern Physics | Galileo Galilei |
Father of English Poetry | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Father of Computer Science | George Boole and Alan Turing |
Father of Aviation | George Cayley |
Father of Railways | George Stephenson |
Father of Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
Father of Homeopathy | Heinemann |
Father of History | Herodotus |
Father of Western Medicine/Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
Father of Blue Revolution | Hiralal Chaudhari |
Father of Nuclear (Indian Nuclear science)/Atomic Program | Homi J.Bhabha |
Father of Mutation theory | Hugo De Vries |
Father of Architecture | Imhotep |
Father of Classical mechanics | Isaac Newton |
Father of Radio Science in India | J C Bose |
Father of Civil Aviation | J. R. D. Tata (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata) |
Father of Atom Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Father of Modern Geology | James Hutton |
Father of the American Constitution | James Madison |
Father of Geography | James Rennell |
Father of Modern Education | John Amos Comenius |
Father of Modern Democracy | John Locke |
Father of Artificial Intelligence | John Mccarthy |
Father of Robotics | Joseph F. Engelberger |
Father of Biotechnology | Karl Ereky |
Father of Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
Father of Bacteriology | Louis Pasteur |
Father of Indian Phycology/ Father of Algology in India | M. O. P. Iyengar (Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar) |
Father of Green Revolution | M. S. Swaminathan (Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan) (India)
Normal Borlaug |
Father of Modern Economics | Paul Samuelson
M.G.Ranade (Mahadev Govind Ranade) (Father of Indian Economics) |
Father of the Nation (India) | Mahatma Gandhi |
Father of Modern Economic Reforms (India) | Manmohan Singh |
Father of Nuclear Science | Marie Curie and Pierre Curie |
Father of Mobile Phone | Martin Cooper |
Father of Quantum mechanics | Max Planck |
Father of Electronics | Michael Faraday |
Father of Peasant Movement | N. G. Ranga (Gogineni Ranga Nayukulu) |
Father of Modern Political science | Niccolo Machiavelli |
Father of Modern Astronomy | Nicolaus Copernicus |
Father of the Green Revolution/Father of Agriculture | Norman Ernest Borlaug |
Father of Nuclear Chemistry | Otto Hahn |
Father of Sanstrik Grammar | Panini |
Father of Genetic Engineering | Paul Berg |
Father of Agronomy | Peter – De- Cresenji |
Father of Modern Management | Peter Georg Ferdinand Drucker |
Father of Television | Philo Farnsworth |
Father of Modern Olympic | Pierre De Coubertin |
Father of Modern Dentistry | Pierre Fauchard |
Father of Linguistic Democracy | Potti Sreeramulu |
Father of Numbers | Pythagoras |
Father of Modern India | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
Father of Indian Ecology | Ramdeo Mishra |
Father of Email | Ray Tomlinson |
Father of Philosophy | Rene Descartes |
Father of Nanotechnology | Richard Smalley |
Father of Cytology | Robert Hooke |
Father of Thermodynamics | Sadi Carnot |
Father of India’s Communication Revolution | Sam Pitroda |
Father of New France | Samuel de Champlain |
Father of Veterinary Science | Shalihotra (India) |
Father of Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud |
Father of Plastic Surgery | Sir Harold Gillies |
Father of Civil Engineering | John Smeaton
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (India) |
Father of Air Force | Subroto Mukerjee (IAF) |
Father of Surgery | Sushruta |
Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
Father of Endocrinology | Thomas Addison |
Father of White Revolution | Verghese Kurien |
Father of Space Program | Vikram Sarabhai |
Father of Pentium Chip | Vinod Dham |
Father of Internet | Vint Cerf |
Father of American Football | Walter Chauncey Camp |
Father of Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt |
Father of Blood Circulation | William Harvey |
Candidates preparing for competitive exams can check other topics on General awareness given below
Sample Questions on Father’s of Various Fields
To understand the relevance of the topic it is essential to know the scope of questions given in the exam paper of competitive exams. Hence, for candidates assistance, given below are a few sample questions on the fathers of different fields replicating the type they might encounter in the exam.
Q.1. Who among the following is the Father of Bacteriology?
- Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
- Shiv Ram Kashyap
- Stephen Hales
- Louis Pasteur
Answer (4)
Q.2. Gregor Mendel is known as the father of _____?
- Father of Gene therapy
- Father of Modern Genetics
- Father of Genetic Engineering
- Father of Eugenics
Answer (2)
Q.3. The Father of biology is Aristotle and the term biology was first used by scientists ____ in 1801.
- Lamarck and Triviranus
- Theophrastus
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Robert Hooke
Answer (1)
Q.4. The Father of Agriculture is Norman Borlaug, who is the father of Agronomy?
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Andreas Vesalius
- Pietro de Crescenzi
- George Cayley
Answer (3)
Q.5. Hugo de Vries is known for ___?
- Taxonomy
- Mutation theory
- Endocrinology
- Modern Chemistry
Answer (2)
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