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Thursday, October 14, 2010

SOME KEY SCIENTISTS IN BIOLOGY AND ALLIED FIELDS

Father of Biology: Aristotle

Father of Botany: Theophrastus

Father of Zoology: Aristotle

Father of Taxonomy: Carolous Linnaeus

Father of Genetics: G.J. Mendel

Father of Experimental genetics: T.H. Morgan

Father of Microscopy: Marcello Malpighii

Father of Comparative Anatomy: B.G. Cuvier

Father of Modern Anatomy: Andreas Vesalimm

Father of Experimental Physiology: Galen

Father of blood circulation: William Harvey

Father of Evolutionary ideas: Empedocles

Father of Modern Embryology: K.V. Baer

Father of Ayurveda: Charaka

Father of Paleontology: L. Da Vinci

Father of Medicine: Hippocrates

Father of Bacteriology: Robert Koch

Father of Microbiology: Louis Pasteur / Leeuwenhoek

Father of Mutation: Hugo de Vries

Father of Modern Genetics: Bateson

Father of Immunology: Edward Jenner

Father of Blood Groups: C. Landsteiner

Father of Cytology: Robert Hooke

Father of Virology: W.M. Stanley

Father of Ecology: Reitter

Father of Parasitology: Platter