Fathers of Various Fields

Questions on fathers of various fields are asked in government job exams. Recognizing the fact that government job aspirants need to learn about fathers of various Fields.

1. Who is known as the Father of Modern Physics?

Ans. Galileo Galilei is known as the Father of Modern Physics.

2. Who is known as the Father of the Green Revolution in world?

Ans. Norman Ernest Borlaug is known as the Father of the Green Revolution.

3. Who is known as the Father of Microbiology?

Ans. Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek is known as the Father of the Microbiology.

4. Who is known as the Father of Modern Astronomy?

Ans. Nicolaus Copernicus is known as the Father of the Modern Astronomy.

5. Who is known as the Father of Nuclear Physics?

Ans. Ernest Rutherford is known as the Father of the Nuclear Physics.

6. Who is known as the Father of Modern Computer Science?

Ans. Alan Turing is known as the father of Computer Science.

7. Who is known as the Father of Biology?

Ans. Aristotle is considered as the Father of Biology.

8. Who is known as the Father of the Green Revolution in India?

Ans. M. S. Swaminathan is known as the Father of the Indian Green Revolution.

9. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Constitution?

Ans. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar is known as the father of the Indian Constitution.

10. Who is known as the Father of American Football?

Ans. Walter Chauncey Camp is known as the Father of American Football.

11. Who is known as the Father of Evolution?

Ans. Charles Darwin is known as the Father of Evolution.

12. Who is known as the Father of Modern Olympics?

Ans. Pierre De Coubertin is known as the Father of the modern Olympics.

13. Who is known as the Father of Numbers?

Ans. Pythagoras is known as the Father of the Numbers.

14. Who is known as the Father of Genetics?

Ans. Gregor Mendel is known as the Father of Genetics.

15. Who is known as the Father of Internet?

Ans. Vint Cerf is known as the Father of the Internet.

16. Who is known as the Father of Botany?

Ans. Theophrastus is known as the Father of Botany.

17. Who is known as the Father of Zoology?

Ans. Aristotle is known as the Father of Zoology.

18. Who is known as the Father of Scientific Management?

Ans. Frederick Winslow Taylor is known as the Father of Scientific Management.

19. Who is known as the Father of Electricity?

Ans. Micheal Faraday is known as the Father of Electricity.

20. Who is known as the Father of Electronics?

Ans. Michael Faraday is known as the Father of Electronics.

21. Who is known as the Father of Television?

Ans. Philo Farnsworth is known as the Father of Television. He developed the first all-electronic television system.

22. Who is known as the Father of Nuclear Chemistry?

Ans. Otto Hahn is known as the Father of Nuclear Chemistry.

23. Who is known as the Father of Periodic Table?

Ans. Dmitri Mendeleev is known as the Father of the Periodic Table.

24. Who is known as the Father of Humanism?

Ans. Francesco Petrarca is known as the Father of Humanism.

25. Who is known as the Father of Telephone?

Ans. Alexander Graham Bell is known as the Father of the Telephone.

26. Who is known as the Father of Mobile Phone?

Ans. Martin Cooper is known as the Father of the Mobile Phone.

27. Who is known as the Father of Geometry?

Ans. Euclid is known as the Father of Geometry.

28. Who is known as the Father of Microscopy?

Ans. Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek is known as the Father of the Microscopy.

29. Who is known as the Father of Laptop PC?

Ans. Bill Moggridge is known as the Father of the Laptop. Osborne 1 is the first laptop computer known, designed by Adam Osborne.

30. Who is known as the Father of Psychology?

Ans. Wilhelm Wundt is known as the Father of Psychology.

31. Who is known as the Father of Surgery?

Ans. Sushruta is known as the Father of Surgery.

32. Who is known as the Father of New France?

Ans. Samuel de Champlain is known as the Father of New France.

33. Who is known as the Father of the American Constitution?

Ans. James Madison is known as the Father of the American Constitution.

34. Who is known as the Father of Plastic Surgery?

Ans. Sushruta is known as the Father of Plastic Surgery.

35. Who is known as the Father of Ayurveda?

Ans. Charaka is known as the Father of the Ayurveda.

36. Who is known as the Father of Western Medicine?

Ans. Hippocrates is known as the Father of Western Medicine.

37. Who is known as the Father of modern medicine?

Ans. Hoppocrates is also known as the Father of modern medicine.

38. Who is known as the father of white revolution in India?

Ans. Dr Verghese Kurien is known as the Father of the Indian White Revolution.

39. Who is known as the Father of India’s Missile Programme?

Ans. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is known as the Father of India’s Missile Programme.

40. Who is known as the Father of modern Economics?

Ans. Adam Smith is known as the Father of modern Economics.

41. Who is known as the Father of DNA Fingerprinting?

Ans. Alec John Jeffreys and Lalji Singh (for India) are the fathers of DNA Fingerprinting.

42. Who is known as the Father of Modern Chemistry?

Ans. Antoine Lavoisier is known as the Father of Modern Chemistry.

43. Who is known as the Father of Sociology?

Ans. Auguste Comte is known as the Father of Sociology.

44. Who is known as the Father of Palaeobotany?

Ans. Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart and Birbal Sahni (for India) are the fathers of Palaeobotany.

45. Who is known as the Father of Computer?

Ans. Charles Babbage is known as the Father of Computer.

46. Who is known as the Father of Physiology?

Ans. Claude Bernard is known as the Father of Physiology.

47. Who is known as the Father of Cinema in India?

Ans. Dadasaheb Phalke (Dhundiraj Govind Phalke) is known as the Father of Cinema in India.

48. Who is known as the Father of Modern Cinema?

Ans. David Wark Griffith is known as the Father of Modern Cinema.

49. Who is known as the Father of Vaccination?

Ans. Edward Jenner is known as the Father of Vaccination.

50. Who is known as the Father of Biodiversity?

Ans. Edward O Wilson is known as the Father of Biodiversity.

51. Who is known as the Father of Hydrogen Bomb?

Ans. Edward Teller is known as the Father of Hydrogen Bomb.

52. Who is known as the Father of Geography?

Ans. Eratosthenes is known as the Father of Geography.

53. Who is known as the Father of Modern Finance?

Ans. Eugene F. Fama is known as the Father of Modern Finance.

54. Who is known as the Father of Modern Ecology?

Ans. Eugene P. Odum is known as the Father of Modern Ecology.

55. Who is known as the Father of Railways?

Ans. George Stephenson is known as the Father of Railways.    

56. Who is known as the Father of Homeopathy?

Ans. Samuel Hahnemann is known as the Father of Homeopathy.

57. Who is known as the Father of History?

Ans. Herodotus is known as the Father of History.

58. Who is known as the Father of Blue revolution in India?

Ans. Hiralal Chaudhuri is known as the Father of blue revolution in India.

59. Who is known as the Father of Radio Science?

Ans. Jagadish Chandra Bose (J C Bose) is known as the Father of Radio Science. He was the first to demonstrate the science behind capturing radio waves.

60. Who is known as the Father of Civil Aviation in India?

Ans. Jehangir Ratanji Dadbhoy (JRD) Tata is known as the Father of Civil Aviation in India.      

61. Who is known as the Father of Atom Bomb?

Ans. J. Robert Oppenheimer is known as the Father of Atom Bomb.

62. Who is known as the Father of Modern Geology?

Ans. James Hutton is known as the Father of Modern Geology.

63. Who is known as the Father of Geography in India?

Ans. James Rennell is known as the Father of Geography in India.

64. Who is known as the Father of Modern Education?

Ans. John Amos Comenius is known as the Father of Modern Education.

65. Who is known as the Father of Artificial Intelligence?

Ans. John Mccarthy is known as the Father of Artificial Intelligence.

66. Who is known as the Father of Robotics?

Ans. Joseph F. Engelberger is known as the Father of Robotics.

67. Who is known as the Father of Biotechnology?

Ans. Karl Ereky is known as the Father of Biotechnology.

68. Who is known as the Father of Blood Groups?

Ans. Karl Landsteiner is known as the Father of Blood Groups.

69. Who is known as the Father of Bacteriology?

Ans. Louis Pasteur is known as the Father of Bacteriology.

70. Who is known as the Father of Modern Plastic Surgery?

Ans. Sir Harold Gillies is known as the Father of Modern Plastic Surgery.

71. Who is known as the Father of Space Program in India?

Ans. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai is known as the Father of Space Program in India.           

72. Who is known as the Father of Endocrinology?

Ans. Some physicians say that Charles Edward Brown-Sequard is the Father of Endocrinology while others say that Thomas Addison is the Father of Endocrinology.

73. Who is known as the Father of the Indian Air Force?

Ans. Subroto Mukherjee is known as the Father of the Indian Air Force.

74. Who is known as the Father of Civil Engineering?

Ans. John Smeaton is known as the Father of Civil Engineering. (Sir Mokshagundam Vishveshwarayya is known as the Father of Civil Engineering in India.)       

75. Who is known as the Father of veterinary science in India?

Ans. Shalihotra (son of Hayagosha) is known as the Father of veterinary science in India.

76. Who is known as the Father of Thermodynamics?

Ans. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot is known as the Father of Thermodynamics.

77. Who is known as the Father of Cytology?

Ans. Robert Hooke is known as the Father of Cytology.

78. Who is known as the Father of Modern Philosophy?

Ans. René Descartes is known as the Father of Modern Philosophy.

79. Who is known as the Father of Email?

Ans. Ray Tomlinson is known as the Father of Email.

80. Who is known as the Father of Modern India?

Ans. Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the Father of Modern India.

81. Who is known as the Father of Agronomy?

Ans. Pietro de’Crescenzi is known as the Father of Agronomy.

82. Who is known as the Father of Sanskrit Grammar?

Ans. Panini is known as the Father of Sanskrit Grammar.

83. Who is known as the Father of Quantum mechanics?

Ans. Max Planck is known as the Father of Quantum mechanics.

84. Who is known as the Father of Nanotechnology?

Ans. Richard Feynman is known as the Father of Nanotechnology.

85. Who is known as the Father of Psychoanalysis?

Ans. Sigmund Freud is known as the Father of Psychoanalysis.

86. Who is known as the Father of Skyscrapers?

Ans. Louis H. Sullivan is known as the Father of Skyscrapers.

Name of Field	Name of Father
Father of Ayurveda	Dhanwantari
Father of Anatomy	Andreas Vesalius
Father of Atom Bomb	J. Robert Oppenheimer
Father of Aviation	Sir George Cayley
Father of Biology	Aristotle
Father of Botany	Theophrastus
Father of Computer	Charles Babbage
Father of Computer Science	George Boole and Alan Turing
Father of Economics	Adam Smith
Father of Electricity	Benjamin Franklin
Father of Electronics	Michael Faraday
Father of Email	Ray Tomlinson
Father of English Poetry	Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of Evolution	Charles Darwin
Father of Genetics	Gregor Mendel
Father of Geometry	Euclid
Father of Humanism	Francesco Petrarca
Father of Immunology	Edward Jenner
Father of Internet	Vint Cerf
Father of Laptop	Bill Moggridge
Father of Microbiology	Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Microscopy	Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Mobile Phone	Martin Cooper
Father of Modern Astronomy	Nicolaus Copernicus
Father of Modern Medicine	Hippocrates
Father of Modern Olympic	Pierre De Coubertin
Father of Modern Physics	Galileo Galilei
Father of Nanotechnology	Richard Smalley
Father of New France	Samuel de Champlain
Father of Western Medicine	Hippocrates
Father of the Indian Constitution	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Father of the Green Revolution in India	M. S. Swaminathan
Father of the Green Revolution	Norman Ernest Borlaug
Father of the Indian Constitution	Dr. B.R Ambedkar
Father of the American Constitution	James Madison
Father of Television	Philo Farnsworth
Father of Telephone	Alexander Graham Bell
Father of Surgery	Sushruta
Father of Nuclear Chemistry	Otto Hahn
Father of Nuclear Physics	Ernest Rutherford
Father of Nuclear Science	Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
Father of Numbers	Pythagoras
Father of Periodic Table	Dmitri Mendeleev
Father of Philosophy	Rene Descartes
Father of Plastic Surgery	Sir Harold Gillies
Father of Political Science	Aristotle
Father of Psychology	Sigmund Freud
Father of Sanstrik Grammar	Panini
Father of Scientific Management	Frederick Winslow Taylor
Father of Sociology	Auguste comte
Father of Optics	Ibn al-Haytham
Father of Green Revolution in the world	Norman Earnest Borlaug
Father of Zoology	Aristotle
Father of Endocrinology	Thomas addison
Father of Modern Botany	Linnaeus
Father of Bacteriology	Leeuwenhoek
Father of Evolutionary Ideas	Empedocles
Father of Modern Genetics	T. H. Morgan
Father of Cytology	Robert Hooke
Father of Mycology	Micheli
Father of Plant Physiology	Stephen Hales
Father of Indian Paleobotany	Birbal Sahani
Father of Indian Ecology	R. Mishra
Father of Eugenics	Francis Galton
Father of Mutation	Hugo De Vries
Father of blood circulation	William Harvey
Father of blood Groups	Karl Landsteiner
Father of Taxonomy	Carolus Linnaeus
Father of Radiation Genetics	H. J. Muller
Father of Paleontology	Leonardo da Vinci
Father of Genetic Engineering	Paul Berg
Father of Indian Phycology-(study of algae)	O. P. Iyengar
Father of Gene Therapy	Anderson
Father of Polygenic Inheritance	Kolreuter
Father of Palynology	Erdtman