FATHERS OF SCIENCE

 Father of biology  -Aristotle 384-322b.c.        

 father of botany - Theophrastus 370-285b.c.  

 father of anatomy-  Herophilus 300b.c.             

 father of medicine - Hippocrates 460-370b.c.   

 Theory of evolution- Charles darwin 1809-1882 

  

 father of genetics - Gregor mendel 1822-1884 

 FATHER OF THE TERM 'BIOTECHNOLOGY' - KARL EREKY

 FATHER OF BIOTECHNOLOGY -  LOUIS PASTEUR

Subject	Father/mother of …	Reason
Bacteriology	Robert Koch, Ferdinand Cohn, Louis Pasteur (founders) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	For their studies and scientific findings on bacteria and algae. First to produce precise, correct descriptions of bacteria.
Biology	Aristotle
Entomology	Jan Swammerdam (founder) Johan Christian Fabricius William Kirby	(Fabricius): Described and published information on over 10,000 insects, and refined Linnaeus's system of classification.
Evolution	Charles Darwin	Publication: On the Origin of Species
Genetics	Gregor Mendel William Bateson (founder)	For his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants, which forms the basis forMendelian inheritance. Proponent of Mendelism.
Ichthyology	Peter Artedi
Lichenology	Erik Acharius
Microbiology	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	The first to microscopically observe micro-organisms in water and the first to seebacteria
Molecular biology	Linus Pauling
Molecular biophysics	Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran]	Founded the Molecular Biophysics Unit (1970)
Natural selection	Charles Darwin	Publication: On the Origin of Species
Neuroscience	Santiago Ramón y Cajal (founder)	For his formation of neuron doctrine
Paleontology	George Cuvier
Protozoology	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	First to produce precise, correct descriptions of protozoa.
Taxonomy	Carolus Linnaeus (founder)	Naming of living organisms that became universally accepted in the scientific world
Toxicology	Paracelsus
Virology	Martinus Beijerinck (founder)	His studies of agricultural microbiology and industrial microbiology yielded fundamental discoveries in the field of biology