FATHERS OF DIFFERENT SUBJECTS

Herodotus (born in about 484 BC), a  famous Greek historian is known as the ‘father of history’.

Aristotle (384-322 BC), a Greek  philosopher and scientist is called “the father of political science”.

Adam Smith (1723 –1790 AD), a Scottish  philosopher and a pioneer of political economy is  cited as the “father of  economics”.

The ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes, born around 276 B.C is commonly called the “father of geography”.

Auguste Comte, (1798 –1857 AD), a French philosopher is called “the father of sociology”.

Sigmund Freud, (1856 - 1939 AD), an Austrian psychiatrist  is called “the father of psychology”.

John Dewey (1859- 1952 AD), an American philosopher, psycho- logist and educational reformer  is known as the “Father of education”.

Robert Boyle (1627- 1691 AD), a natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and scientist,   is best known as the “Father of chemistry”.

Archimedes (287- 212 BC),  a Greek mathematician, physi- cist, inventor, and astronomer, is  consi- dered to be the “father of  mathematics”.

Euclid, (300 BC), a Greek mathema- tician  is referred to as the “Father of Geometry.

Theophrastus (371- 287 BC), a Greek scholar is called the father of botany because of his two surviving botanical works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants, which were an important influence on medieval science.

Galileo(1564–1642 AD) the famous Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher has been called the “father of  science”, “father of  astronomy and  the “father of  physics,”.

Charles Babbage (1791 –1871 AD),an English mathe- matician, philosopher, inventor and mechani cal engineer who originated the concept of a progra- mmable computer is considered as the  “father of the computer”.

Grant Lewi,  an astrologer, born on 1902 in Albany, New York, America is known as the “father of modern astrology”.

Abdallah Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780- 850 BC), a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer, whose  Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations, is considered to be the “father of algebra”.

     In 1796 AD German physician Samuel Hahnemann used Homeopathy, a form of alternative medicine that treats patients with heavily diluted preparations is called as the “father of Homeopathy”.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909–2005AD), an Austrian writer, management consultant, and  social ecologist is considered to be “the father of modern management,”.