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He then joined the Government College at Lahore as a professor of biology founding the botany department in 1919. He was a founding member of the Indian Botanical Society in 1920 and edited its journal.
Often described as the Father of Biogeography, Wallace shows the impact of human activity on the natural world." [10] Bioinformatics: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925–1983) "... the mother and father of bioinformatics", according to David J. Lipman, former director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information. [11] Biology [note 1]
He is also known as father of Indian plant embryology also wrote a book- an introduction to embryology of Angiosperms. He encouraged general education and made a significant contribution to school education by his leadership in bringing out the very first textbooks of Biology for Higher Secondary Schools published by NCERT in 1964.
Lalji Singh (5 July 1947 – 10 December 2017) [3] was an Indian scientist who worked in the field of DNA fingerprinting technology in India and pioneer of Assisted reproductive technology, where he was popularly known as the "Father of Indian DNA fingerprinting". [4]
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.
Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian-American biochemist. [1] While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's ...
[221] [222] [223] Aristotle's work remains largely unknown to modern scientists, though zoologists sometimes mention him as the father of biology [176] or in particular of marine biology. [224] Practising zoologists are unlikely to adhere to Aristotle's chain of being, but its influence is still perceptible in the use of the terms "lower" and ...
Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. A crater on the Moon was named in his honour. [6] He founded the Bose Institute, a premier research institute in India and also one of its oldest. Established in 1917, the institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia. [7]