Often, discoveries and innovations are the work of multiple people, resulting from continual improvements over time. However, certain individuals are remembered for making significant contributions to the birth or development of a field or technology.
These individuals may often be described as the "father" or "mother" of a particular
field or
invention
An invention is a unique or novelty (patent), novel machine, device, Method_(patent), method, composition, idea, or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It m ...
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Academic disciplines
Humanities
Natural and social sciences
Fine art
Games
Military
Nations
Sports
Technology
Fields
Computing
Inventions
Transport
See also
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List of inventors
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List of pioneers in computer science
This is a list of people who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers could do.
Pioneers
~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates.
See also
* Computer Pioneer Award
* IEEE John von ...
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Father of medicare
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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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Father of the House
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Father (honorific)
References
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