Often, discoveries and innovations are the work of multiple people, resulting from continual improvements over time. However, certain individuals are remembered for making significant contributions to the birth or development of a field or technology.
These individuals may often be described as the "father" or "mother" of a particular
field
Field may refer to:
Expanses of open ground
* Field (agriculture), an area of land used for agricultural purposes
* Airfield, an aerodrome that lacks the infrastructure of an airport
* Battlefield
* Lawn, an area of mowed grass
* Meadow, a grass ...
or
invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an i ...
, mostly in
Western societies.
Fine art
Games
Humanities
Military
Nations
Natural and social sciences
Sports
Technology
Fields
Computing
Inventions
Transport
See also
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List of inventors
This is a list of notable inventors.
Alphabetical list
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* Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), Russia – camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread), gearless ice climbing anchor
* Ernst Karl Abbe (1840–1905), Germany – Condenser (micros ...
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List of pioneers in computer science
This is a list of people who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers could do.
Pioneers
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Father of medicare Several individuals have been described as the father of medicare in Canada. Medicare is the country's publicly funded health system.
*Tommy Douglas championed public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and federal leade ...
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Founders of statistics
Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the ...
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Father of the House
References
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