List of persons considered father or mother of a field
Revisions and sourced additions are welcome; please only include historical figures.
The following is a list of significant men and women known, following the now largely-discredited great man theory, for being the father, mother, or considered the founders in a field, listed by category. In some fields the title of being the "father" is debatable.
Founding father of modern Aerodynamics. The first to undertake the study of airflow. He established the world's first Aerodynamic Institute. The first to explaine the origin of aerodynamic lift
Father of the personal computer. Invented world's first functional program-controlled computer. Was a secret code breaker during WWII and invented the Turing machine (1936) Became "intrigued" with Turing's universal machine and later emphasised the importance of the stored-program concept for electronic computing (1945), including the possibility of allowing the machine to modify its own program in useful ways while running Invented the digital computer in the 1930s
Recognized by historians as the writer of the world's first computer program which was for the Charles BabbageAnalytical Engine, but was never complete within either her or his lifetime.
Co-Inventors of the Electronic Television. Farnsworth invented the Image dissector while Zworykin created the Iconoscope, both fully electronic forms of Television.
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