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The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
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.
Nutritional science (also nutrition science, sometimes short nutrition, dated trophology [1]) is the science that studies the physiological process of nutrition (primarily human nutrition), interpreting the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.
Seminal discoveries in vaccination, food safety, and microbial fermentation. A key proponent of the germ theory of disease. [2] 1850–1934 Fanny Hesse: German Developed agar for use in culturing bacteria. [2] [6] 1851–1931 Martinus Beijerinck: Netherlands Discovered the first virus as well as bacterial nitrogen fixation and sulfate reduction ...
Abraham Trembley (1710–1784), Swiss naturalist, known for being the first to study freshwater polyps; Melchior Treub (1851–1910), Dutch botanist [388] who worked on plants of south-east Asia; Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), English clergyman and ornithologist [389] who tried to reconcile evolution and creation
The first five departments were directed by two graduates of the École Normale Supérieure: Émile Duclaux (general microbiology research) and Charles Chamberland (microbe research applied to hygiene), as well as a biologist, Élie Metchnikoff (morphological microbe research) and two physicians, Jacques-Joseph Grancher and Émile Roux ...
Ancel Benjamin Keys (January 26, 1904 – November 20, 2004) was an American physiologist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he hypothesized that replacing dietary saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat reduced cardiovascular diseases.
The development of archaeology has its roots in history and with those who were interested in the past, such as kings and queens who wanted to show past glories of their respective nations. The 5th-century-BCE Greek historian Herodotus was the first scholar to systematically study the past and perhaps the first to examine artifacts.