Gregor Mendel = Laws of Heredity / Father of Genetics
Charles Darwin = Theory of Evolution / Natural Selection
Alexander Fleming = Discovery of Penicillin (first antibiotic)
Robert Hooke = Discovered Cells (coined the term “cell”)
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek = Discovered Bacteria and Protozoa (Father of Microbiology)
Louis Pasteur = Germ Theory of Disease, Pasteurization, Rabies Vaccine
Edward Jenner = Smallpox Vaccine (first vaccine ever)
Watson and Crick = Double Helix Model of DNA
Rosalind Franklin = X-ray diffraction image of DNA (Photo 51)
Robert Koch = Discovered the bacterium that causes Tuberculosis
Karl Landsteiner = Discovered Blood Groups (ABO system)
Hippocrates = Father of Medicine
Aristotle = Father of Biology and Zoology
William Harvey = Discovered Blood Circulation
Andreas Vesalius = Father of Human Anatomy
Carolus Linnaeus = Binomial Nomenclature / Classification System
Erwin Chargaff = Base Pair Rule (A=T, G=C in DNA)
Frederick Banting & Charles Best = Discovered Insulin
Thomas Hunt Morgan = Role of Chromosomes in Heredity (Drosophila experiments)
Ivan Pavlov = Classical Conditioning (Behavioral Science)
Hans Krebs = Krebs Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle in respiration)
Melvin Calvin = Calvin Cycle (Photosynthesis process)
Maurice Wilkins = DNA Structure (X-ray diffraction studies)
Francis Galton = Fingerprinting and Eugenics
Paul Ehrlich = Magic Bullet theory / Treatment of Syphilis
Alexander Oparin = Theory on Origin of Life (Chemical Evolution)
Barbara McClintock = Discovery of Jumping Genes (Transposons)
Hugo de Vries = Mutation Theory
Matthias Schleiden & Theodor Schwann = Cell Theory (all living things made of cells)
Jan Ingenhousz = Discovery of Photosynthesis
Quick Facts for Revision:
1. Father of Biology: Aristotle
2. Father of Genetics: Gregor Mendel
3. Father of Microbiology: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
4. Father of Modern Medicine: Hippocrates
5. Father of Modern Botany: Theophrastus
6. Father of Taxonomy: Carolus Linnaeus
7. Father of Modern Genetics: Thomas Hunt Morgan
8. Father of Immunology: Edward Jenner
