Science, asked by itzsahil124, 1 year ago

who was founder of science​


Anonymous: actually there is no founder of science.
Anonymous: Kindly name a particular branch of Science...
Anonymous: Science is a vast subject...and there are many fields in it.... for example, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, astronomy, astrology...and so on...

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Answered by toshanachuttu
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Biology

Field Person/s

considered "father" or "mother" Rationale

Bacteriology Robert Koch / Ferdinand Cohn[4] / Louis Pasteur First to produce precise, correct descriptions of bacteria.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek[5]

Biogeography Alfred Russel Wallace "...Often described as the Father of Biogeography, Wallace shows the impact of human activity on the natural world."[6]

Biology[n 1] Aristotle  

Botany Theophrastus  

Cheloniology Archie Carr [7][8][9][10][11]

Ecology Carl Linnaeus / Ernst Haeckel / Eugenius Warming[12] Linnaeus founded an early branch of ecology that he called The Economy of Nature (1772), Haeckel coined the term "ecology" (German: Oekologie, Ökologie) (1866), Warming authored the first book on plant ecology. Plantesamfund (1895).

Entomology Jan Swammerdam [13]

Johan Christian Fabricius[14] Fabricius described and published information on over 10,000 insects and refined Linnaeus's system of classification.

William Kirby [15]

Ethology Nikolaas Tinbergen

Karl von Frisch

Konrad Lorenz The modern discipline of ethology is generally considered to have begun during the 1930s with the work of Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch, joint awardees of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[16]

EvolutionNatural selection

Charles Darwin[17][18][19] On the Origin of Species (1859).

Genetics Gregor Mendel For his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants, which forms the basis for Mendelian inheritance.[20]

William Bateson Proponent of Mendelism.[21]

Herpetology John Edwards Holbrook "John Edwards Holbrook... was considered by many to be the Father of Herpetology."[22][23]

Ichthyology Peter Artedi "Far greater than either of these… was he who has been justly called the Father of Ichthyology, Petrus (Peter) Artedi (1705–35)."[24]

Lichenology Erik Acharius "Erik Acharius, the father of lichenology..."[25]

Microbiology Antonie van Leeuwenhoek / Louis Pasteur[26] The first to microscopically observe micro-organisms in water and the first to see bacteria.

Molecular biology Linus Pauling [27]

Molecular biophysics Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran[28] Founded the [world's first?] molecular biophysics unit (1970).

Paleontology Leonardo da Vinci

George Cuvier [29]

Parasitology Francesco Redi The founder of experimental biology and the first person to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies.[30]

Protozoology Antonie van Leeuwenhoek[5] First to produce precise, correct descriptions of protozoa.

Taxonomy Carl Linnaeus[31] Devised the system of naming living organisms that became universally accepted in the scientific world.

Virology Dmitry Ivanovsky  

Martinus Beijerinck The first men to discover viruses (1892).

to Develop that Power (1824)

Answered by Nivashni2025
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Galileo Galilei is considered to be the father of modern science. Stephen Hawking and other scientists believe that Galileo contributed more to modern science than any other figure in history. He is also considered to be the father of modern physics, astronomy and observational science.
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