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Mendel, known as the "father of modern genetics," chose to study variation in plants in his monastery's 2 hectares (4.9 acres) experimental garden. [26] Mendel was assisted in his experimental design by Aleksander Zawadzki while his superior abbot Napp wrote to discourage him, saying that the Bishop giggled when informed of the detailed ...
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.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.
Father/mother Reason Automotive industry: Carl Benz [139] [140] His Benz Patent Motorcar from 1885 is considered the first practical modern automobile and first car put into series production. [141] 20th century American car industry: Henry Ford [142] Noted for introducing a simple and affordable car for the ordinary American masses.
The history of genetics dates from the classical era with contributions by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, and others. Modern genetics began with the work of the Augustinian friar Gregor Johann Mendel .
James V. Neel (1915–2000), US human geneticist who contributed to the development of research on human genetics, and founded the first genetics clinic in the US Frederick C. Neidhardt (1931–2016), US microbiologist, pioneer in molecular physiology and proteomics of E. coli
In 2010, the R.A. Fisher Chair in Statistical Genetics was established in University College London to recognise Fisher's extraordinary contributions to both statistics and genetics. Anders Hald called Fisher "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science", [6] while Richard Dawkins named him "the ...
Prior to Mendel, Imre Festetics, a Hungarian noble, who lived in Kőszeg before Mendel, was the first who used the word "genetic" in hereditarian context, and is considered the first geneticist. He described several rules of biological inheritance in his work The genetic laws of nature (Die genetischen Gesetze der Natur, 1819). [10]
William French Anderson (born December 31, 1936) is an American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist.He is known as the "father of gene therapy".He graduated from Harvard College in 1958, Trinity College, Cambridge University (England) in 1960, and from Harvard Medical School in 1963.