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==Father of==

===[[Entertainment]]===
* [[Thomas A. Dorsey]] ([[July 1]], [[1899]] - [[January 23]], [[1993]]) 
** '''The Father of the Chicago Gospel Singing Movement''' [http://www.dovesong.com/Positive_music/archives/gospel/Dorsey.asp] (DoveSong Foundation)
** '''Father of [[Gospel Music]]''' [http://www.chicagohs.org/AOTM/feb00/feb00fact1.html] ([[The Chicago Historical Society]])

===[[Government]]===
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* [[James Madison]] ([[March 16]], [[1751]] – [[June 28]], [[1836]])
**'''Father of the [[United States Constitution]]''' [http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html] ([[White House]] bio), [http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/index.htm] (The James Madison Center - JMU)
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* [[Dr. John McLoughlin]] ([[October 19]], [[1784]] – [[September 3]], [[1857]])
** '''Father of [[Oregon]]'''  [http://bluebook.state.or.us/notable/notmcloughlin.htm] (Oregon Blue Book)
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* [[Ernest W. McFarland]] ([[1894]] - [[1984]])
** '''Father of the [[G.I. Bill]]'''  [http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/People_Leaders_McFarland.htm] ([[U.S. Senate]])

===[[History]]===
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* '''Father of History''': [[Herodotus]], (485–c. 420 BC), Halicarnassian (Persia)
* '''Father of [[Church history]]''': [[Eusebius of Caesarea]] (~275–339)
* '''Father of [[American Catholic history]]''': [[John Gilmary Shea]]
* '''Father of [[historical criticism]]''': [[William of Newburgh]] (1135–1198), [[English people|English]] historian

===[[Science]]===
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* [[Thales of Miletus]] is regarded by many as the '''father of [[science]]'''; he was the first [[Greek people|Greek]] [[philosopher]] to seek to explain the [[physical world]] in terms of [[natural]] rather than [[supernatural]] [[cause]]s. 
* [[Chung-Yao Chao]], [[Caltech]] [[PhD]] [[1930]] 
** The [[discoverer]] of [[antimatter]], '''father of [[atomic energy]] [[enterprise]] of [[China]]'''
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* [[Tsien Hsue-shen]], [[Caltech]] [[PhD]] [[1939]] 
** '''Father of [[China]]'s [[rocket]] program'''
* [[Paul MacCready]], [[Caltech]] [[MS]] [[1948]], [[PhD]] [[1952]] 
** '''Father of [[Human Powered Flight]]''', invented the [[Gossamer Condor]] and the [[Gossamer Albatross]]
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* [[William Smith (geologist)|William Smith]] ([[March 23]], [[1769]] - [[August 28]], [[1839]]) was an [[England|English]] [[geologist]].  Smith is credited with creating the first nationwide [[geologic map]] and is known as the "'''Father of English [[Geology]]'''". However, recognition was slow in coming. His work was [[plagarize]]d, he was financially ruined and spent time in [[debtor's prison]]. The genteel practitioners of the new science of [[geology]] and founders of the [[geological societies]] snubbed the low-born Smith. It was only much later in Smith's life that he received recognition for his accomplishments.  In January [[1831]] the [[Geological Society of London]] conferred on Smith the first [[Wollaston medal]]. It was on this occasion that [[Adam Sedgwick]] referred to Smith as "the Father of English Geology". 
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* '''Father of [[modern toxicology]]''': [[Paracelsus]] said, "[[dose]] determines the [[poison]]". Paracelsus, who lived in the [[15th century]] was the first person to explain the dose response relationship of toxic substances.
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* [[Mathieu Orfila]] is considered to be '''the father of [[toxicology]]''', having given the subject its first formal treatment in [[1813]] in his ''[[Trait des poisons]]'', also called ''[[Toxicologie generate]]''.

====[[Biology]]====
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* [[Vladimir Vernadsky]], a [[Russia]]n [[scientist]] in the tradition of [[Mendeleev]], is credited with founding the science of biogeochemistry.
** '''Father of [[biogeochemistry]]''' 
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* [[James Lovelock]] (b. [[1919]]), [[English people|English]] [[chemist]]
** '''Father of the [[gaia hypothesis]]'''
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* [[Claude Bernard]] ([[1813]] - [[1878]]), [[French]] [[physiologist]]
** '''father of the concept of [[homeostasis]]'''
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* [[Edward O. Wilson]]
** [[American]] [[myrmecologist]], [[sociobiology]]
* [[Carolus Linnaeus]] ([[1707]] - [[1778]])
** [[taxonomy]]

=====[[Zoology]]=====

* '''Father of [[entomology]]''': [[William Kirby (entomologist)]] ([[1759]] - [[1850]]) 
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* '''Father of [[systematics]]''': '''[[Carl Linnaeus]]''', also known after his [[nobility |ennoblement]] as '''[[Carl von Linné]]''', and who wrote under the [[Latin]]ized name '''Carolus Linnaeus''' ([[1707]] &ndash; [[1778]]), was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of [[taxonomy]]. He is also considered one of the fathers of modern [[ecology]].

====[[Mathematics]]====
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* [[Euclid]] of [[Alexandria]] (Greek: Eukleides) (circa [[365 BC]] – [[275 BC]]) was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mathematician]], now known as "'''the father of [[geometry]]'''". His most famous work is ''[[Euclid's Elements|Elements]]'', widely considered to be history's most successful textbook. Within it, the properties of [[geometrical]] objects and [[integer]]s are deduced from a small set of [[axiom]]s, thereby anticipating (and partly inspiring) the [[axiomatic method]] of [[modern mathematics]]. Although many of the results in ''Elements'' originated with earlier mathematicians, one of Euclid's major accomplishments was to present them in a single, logically coherent framework. In addition to providing some missing [[proof]]s, Euclid's text also includes sections on [[number theory]] and [[three-dimensional geometry]]. The geometrical system described in ''Elements'' was long known simply as "the" geometry. Today, however, it is often referred to as [[Euclidean geometry]] to distinguish it from other so-called [[non-Euclidean geometry|non-Euclidean geometries]] which developed in the [[19th century]]. These new geometries grew out of more than two [[millennia]] of investigation into Euclid's [[Parallel postulate|fifth postulate]], one of the most-studied axioms in all of [[mathematics]].
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* [[Pythagoras]] was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mathematician]] who is known as the "'''father of [[numbers]]'''"; it is believed that he had the pioneering insight into the [[numerical ratio]]s that determine the [[musical scale]], and the [[Pythagorean theorem]] is commonly attributed to him. 
* [[Diophantus]] of [[Alexandria]] is sometimes called the "'''father of [[algebra]]'''"

===[[Technology]]===
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* '''"Father" of the [[Apple]] [[iPod]]''': [[Tony Fadell]]
* '''"Father of [[information theory]]"''': [[Claude E. Shannon]] 

===Misc===
* In [[1939]], [[Dr. Frank W. Cyr]] of [[New York]], who became known as '''The Father of the Yellow School Bus''', hosted a 7 day long national [[conference]] of [[industry]] and [[school]] leaders which established 44 important safety standards and the yellow color for school buses all across the [[United States]].
* Sir [[Francis Galton]] ([[1822]]–[[1911]]) made important contributions to statistics and is known as the '''father of [[eugenics]]'''. 

===[[Future]]===
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* '''[[Gabriel Bell]]''' (DS9, "Past Tense") ([[April 24]], [[1987]] - [[September 3]], [[2024]]) During a 2024 revolt in [[San Francisco]] where federal employees were held hostage, he made sure the hostages were not harmed. In an alternate timeline, Bell was killed earlier and [[Benjamin Sisko]] stepped in to fulfill Bell's role in the pivotal historical moment. In a guidebook to Earth that Jake gave to Nog, Gabriel Bell is described as "'''the father of Earth's [[post-modern]] [[reformism]]'''," and shown with a picture of Sisko.

==Theories==
[[Theory]]

[[scientific theory]]
[[wage theory]]
[[auteur theory]]
[[location theory]]
[[tricellular theory]]
[[critical theory]]

[[mathematical theory]]: [[group theory]] [[set theory]] [[field theory]]

* '''[[biology]] and related''' : [[Theory of evolution]]
* '''[[climatology]] : [[Global Warming]] Theory
* '''[[computer science]]''' : [[Algorithmic information theory]]&nbsp;| [[Computation|Computation theory]]
* '''[[game]]s''' : [[Rational choice theory]]&nbsp;| [[Game theory]]
* '''general''' : [[Obsolete scientific theories]]
* '''[[geology]]''' : [[Continental drift]]&nbsp;| [[Plate tectonics]]
* general '''[[humanities]]''' : [[Critical theory]]
* '''[[literature]]''' : [[Literary theory]]
* '''[[mathematics]]''' : [[axiomatic set theory]]&nbsp;| [[Chaos theory]]&nbsp;| [[Graph theory]]&nbsp;| [[Number theory]]&nbsp;| [[Probability theory]]
* '''[[music]]''' : [[Music theory]]
* '''other''' : [[Phlogiston theory]]
* '''philosophy''' [[speculative reason]] (theory vs. practice)
* '''[[physics]]''' (a mother of theories) : [[Grand unification theory]]&nbsp;| [[Quantum field theory]]&nbsp;| [[String theory]]&nbsp;| [[Superstring theory]]&nbsp;| [[Theory of relativity]]&nbsp;| [[Acoustic theory]]&nbsp;| [[Antenna theory]]&nbsp;| [[Theory of everything]] (TOE)&nbsp;| [[Kaluza-Klein theory]]&nbsp;| [[M-theory]]&nbsp;| [[Loop quantum gravity|Loop quantum gravity theory]]&nbsp;| [[Special relativity|special theory of relativity]]&nbsp;| [[General relativity|general theory of relativity]]&nbsp;| [[Dynamic theory of gravity]]&nbsp;|  [[Luminiferous aether|Ether theory]]
* '''[[planetary science]]''' : [[Giant impact theory]] 
* '''[[sexology]] and [[behaviour]]''' : [[Ladder Theory|Ladder theory]]
* '''[[sociology]] and [[philosophy]]''' : [[Critical social theory]]&nbsp;| [[Value theory]]
* '''[[statistics]]''' : [[Extreme value theory]]