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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.
Philip Schuyler, Revolutionary War general, U.S. senator from New York, father of the Schuyler sisters. John Sevier, cofounder of the Watauga Association, Revolutionary War soldier, called the Founding Father of Tennessee [122] Arthur St. Clair, major general, president of the Confederation Congress, and later first governor of the Northwest ...
Presumed father – Where a presumption of paternity has determined that a man is a child's father regardless of if he actually is or is not the biological father Social father – where a man takes de facto responsibility for a child, such as caring for one who has been abandoned or orphaned (the child is known as a "child of the family" in ...
Subject Father / mother Reason African-American history: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg [54]: For his "[research and raising] awareness of the great contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and African Americans have made to society,...[being] an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance [and, over] the years, [collecting] literature, art, slave narratives, and other materials of ...
Sabit Damolla is considered the father of the nation and one of the most prominent leaders of the East Turkistan independence movement. He organized the Kumul Rebellion which erupted in 1931 into a full national liberation movement and served as the Prime Minister of the First East Turkestan Republic from 1933 to 1934.
John McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1927, to an Irish immigrant father and a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant mother, [4] John Patrick and Ida (Glatt) McCarthy. The family was obliged to relocate frequently during the Great Depression , until McCarthy's father found work as an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing ...
Bhabha is considered the "father of the Indian nuclear programme" [134] [135] [136] and one of the most prominent scientists in the country's history. [137] [138] After his death, the Atomic Energy Establishment at Mumbai was renamed the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour.