The article will talk about the Father’s of medical sciences that are important for the General Awareness Section of various competitive exams.
List of Father’s of Medical Sciences
| Father of Medicine | Hippocrates |
| Father of Western Medicine | Hippocrates |
| Father of Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
| Father of Experimental Medicine | Claude Bernard |
| Father of Surgery | Sushruta |
| Father of Plastic Surgery | Sir Harold Gillies |
| Father of Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
| Father of Bacteriology | Louis Pasteur |
| Father of Public health | Cholera |
| Father of Modern Dentistry | Pierre Fauchard |
| Father of Immunology | Edward Jenner |
| Father of Vaccination | Edward Jenner |
| Father of Endocrinology | Thomas Addison |
| Father of Geneticss | Gregor Johann Mendel |
| Father of Cytology | Robert Hooke |
| Father of Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt |
| Father of Ayurveda | Charaka |
| Father of Ayurvedic surgery | Sushruta |
| Hindu God of Medicine | Dhanwantari |
| Father of Biology/ Zoology/ Embryology | Aristotle |
| Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
| Father of Physiology | Claude Bernard |
| Father of Blood Circulation | William Harvey |
| Father of Gene Therapy | French Anderson |
| Father of DNA Fingerprinting | Alec John Jeffreys |
| Father of Microbiology/Microscopy | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |