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FATHERS IN BIOLOGY

1. Father of Medicine - Hippocrates


2. Father of Biology and Zoology - Aristotle
3. Father of Botany and Ecology - Theophrastus
4. Father of Anatomy - Andreas Vesalius
5. Father of Comparative Anatomy - George Cuvier
6. Father of Microscopic Anatomy - Marcello Malpighi
7. Father of Microscopy  - Antony van Leeuwenhoek
8. Father of Cytology - Robert Hooke
9. Father of Taxonomy and Nomenclature -  Carolus  Linnaeus
10. Founder of Embryology - C. F. Wolff
11. Father of Modern Embryology - Von Baer
12. Father of Immunology - Edward Jenner
13. Father of Plant Physiology - Stephen Hales
14. Father of Plant Pathology - de Bary
15. Father of Antiseptic Surgery - Joseph Lister
16. Father of Endocrinology - Thomas Addison
17. Father of Conditioned Reflexes - Pavlov.
18. Father of Palaeontology - Leonard da Vinci
19. Father of Modern Palaeonlogy - Cuvier
20. Father of Antibiotic - Alexander Fleming
21. Father of Blood Circulation - William Harvey
22. Father of Blood Groups - Landsteiner
23. Father of Green Revolution - Norman E. Borlaug
24. Father of Indian Green Revolution - M. S. Swaminathan
25. Birdman of India - Salim Ali
26. Father of Indian Palaeobotany - Birbal Sahni
27. Father of Genetics - Gregor Johann Mendel
28. Father of Eugenics - Francis Galton
29. Father of Experimental Genetics - T. H. Morgan
30. Father of Chromatography - Michael Tswett

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