The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a
scientific field
The branches of science, also referred to as sciences, scientific fields or scientific disciplines, are commonly divided into three major groups:
* Formal sciences: the study of formal systems, such as those under the branches of logic and ...
. Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "''a''" rather than "''the''" father or mother of the field. Debate over who merits the title can be perennial.
Science as a whole
Natural sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Earth sciences
Medicine and physiology
Physics and astronomy
Formal sciences
Mathematics
Systems theory
Social sciences
Economics
Schools of thought
Theories
See also
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Founders of statistics
Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the ...
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