www.sscexamguide.com Father of Various Branches of Science 1. Dr. M. S Swaminathan

- Father of Green Revolution in India

2. Dr. V. Kurien

- Father of white Revolution

3. Norman Earnest Borlaug

- Father of Green Revolution in the world

4. Aristotle

- Father of Biology

5. Aristotle

- Father of Zoology

6. Theophrastus

- Father of Botany

7. Thomas addison

- Father of Endocrinology

8. Linnaeus

- Father of Modern Botany

9. Leeuwenhoek

- Father of Bacteriology

10. Edward Jenner

- Father of Immunology

11. Empedocles

- Father of Evolutionary Ideas

12. G. J. Mendel

- Father of Genetics

13. T. H. Morgan

- Father of Modern Genetics

14. Louis Pasteur

- Father of Microbiology

15. Robert Hooke

- Father of Cytology

16. Micheli

- Father of Mycology

17. Stephen Hales

- Father of Plant Physiology

18. Birbal Sahani

- Father of Indian Paleobotany

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www.sscexamguide.com 19. R. Mishra

- Father of Indian Ecology

20. Francis Galton

- Father of Eugenics

21. Hugo De Vries

- Father of Mutation

22. William Harvey

- Father of blood circulation

23. Karl Landsteiner

- Father of blood Groups

24. Carolus Linnaeus

- Father of Taxonomy

25. H. J. Muller

- Father of Radiation Genetics

26. Hippocrates

- Father of Medicine

27. Leonardo da Vinci

- Father of Paleontology

28. Marcello Malpighi

- Father of Microscopy

29. Paul Berg

- Father of Genetic Engineering

30. O. P. Iyengar

- Father of Indian Phycology-(study of algae)

31. Anderson

- Father of Gene Therapy

32. Kolreuter

- Father of Polygenic Inheritance

33. Erdtman

- Father of Palynology

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