Who is the Father / Mother of your current or future profession?

[Hashime]

Who is the Father / Mother of your current or future profession? Who is the person whose absence would result in your profession not existing? (wow awkward phrasing)
This is of course your opinion on the matter.

 

[Hashime]

The father of nanotechnology is Richard Feynman. He created 2 prizes that spurred the research world into looking at nanotechnology.
He is also cool: http://www.wimp.com/feynmanterms/

 

[thylasos]

Aristotle, as far as I'm aware, was the earliest lecturer.

 

[octafish]

Hmmmmm Nicéphore Niépce or Cartier-Bresson, maybe Mathew Brady... Without Nicéphore Niépce we wouldn't have photography so I think he trumps the others.

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

Some caveman grunting in melody.

 

[Atticus89]

Herodotus.

 

[Dags90]

Biotechnology predates written history in the use of microbes to ferment alcohol.

 

[fletch_talon]

It was many many years ago when Ug first picked up charcoal and ochre and wove a story, about mammoth beasts and the brave heroes who felled them.

I spose technically that made him more the first comic/graphic novel artist than an author, but its a similar concept.

 

[The Austin]

Whoever invented the camera?

Uhhh..... Speilburg? (Tee-Hee)

 

[RandallJohn]

Well, that'd be graphic design, so... i dunno, Gutenberg, I guess?

 

[Berethond]

<url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing>Alan Turing for sure.

 

[Gigano]

Possibly Ur-Nammu [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Nammu], though I doubt his absence would really mean much.

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

People have been telling stories since the dawn of time. However, without the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare it would not nearly be what it is today.

 

[Redingold]

Twentieth century physicists.

Bohr, Einstein, Feynman, Glashow, Salem and Weinberg, and so on. Really, I doubt you could link particle physics to just one man. Possibly Planck.

 

[TheHecatomb]

For what I hope to be doing one day? Stan Winston.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

<url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing>Alan Turing for sure.

That's it for me as well.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Biotechnology predates written history in the use of microbes to ferment alcohol.

Modern biotechnology generally considers Louis Pasteur as the father of the field. Probably the better bet than "some people long ago who discovered you could intentionally rot things and then drink them for a great time".

The father of nanotechnology is Richard Feynman. He created 2 prizes that spurred the research world into looking at nanotechnology.
He is also cool: http://www.wimp.com/feynmanterms/

Some people ask what Jesus would do in a time of crisis. I prefer to ask what Feynman would do.

 

[Nickolai77]

As a history and IR student, i'd suggest Thucydides.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

As a history and IR student, i'd suggest Thucydides.

Twentieth century physicists.

Bohr, Einstein, Feynman, Glashow, Salem and Weinberg, and so on. Really, I doubt you could link particle physics to just one man. Possibly Planck.

Biotechnology predates written history in the use of microbes to ferment alcohol.

Modern biotechnology generally considers Louis Pasteur as the father of the field. Probably the better bet than "some people long ago who discovered you could intentionally rot things and then drink them for a great time".

The father of nanotechnology is Richard Feynman. He created 2 prizes that spurred the research world into looking at nanotechnology.
He is also cool: http://www.wimp.com/feynmanterms/

Some people ask what Jesus would do in a time of crisis. I prefer to ask what Feynman would do.

As a history and IR student, i'd suggest Thucydides.

Twentieth century physicists.

Bohr, Einstein, Feynman, Glashow, Salem and Weinberg, and so on. Really, I doubt you could link particle physics to just one man. Possibly Planck.

That one's easy enough. Newton. Hell the man is the father of modern everything in a way. And what's worse is he did everything he was ever remembered for by the time he was 26! I'm so awestruck that I either want to celebrate his life or piss on his grave for making me look so very bad.