Question

Who is known as the ‘father of endocrinology’?

• A. R. H. Whittaker
• B. Thomas Addison
• C. Pasteur
• D. Einthoven

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. Thomas Addison.

Thomas Addison is widely regarded as the 'father of endocrinology' because he discovered the relation between Addison's disease and the abnormal hormone secretion from the adrenal glands. He also discovered the effect of deficiency of vitamin $B_{12}$ which causes pernicious anemia.

R.H. Whittaker proposed the five-kingdom classification system to classify living organisms. Einthoven discovered by the first electrocardiograph (ECG) machine. Louis Pasteur is called the 'father of microbiology' and 'father of immunology' because of his works on germ theory of a disease and development of first vaccine against rabies.

Hence, the 'father of endocrinology' is Thomas Addison.