INVENTORS / FATHERS IN

VETERINARY SCIENCE

PREPARED BY : RAHUL KATARIA

VETERINARY ANATOMY:

PHILIPPE ETIENNE LAFOSSE – father of veterinary anatomy.

•Lafosse opened his own private

Veterinary school in paris (1767)

ANDREAS VESALIUS – father of

modern anatomy.

VETERINARY PHYSIOLOGY:

CLAUDE BERNARD – father of modern experimental physiology.

WILLIAM HARVEY – father of physiology.

VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH:

Dr. JAMES HARLAN STEELE – father of veterinary public health.

CALVIN W. SCHWABE – father of veterinary epidemiology.

VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY:

• ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK – father of microbiology

• LOUIS PASTEUR – father of bacteriology

• EDWARD JENNER – father of immunology

• MARTINUS BEJERINCK – father of virology

• SIR EDWIN JOHN BUTLER – father of mycology

• ARTHUR MOURANT – father of serology

ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK EDWARD JENNER

MARTINUS BEJERINCKARTHUR MOURANT LOUIS PASTEUR

SIR EDWIN JOHN BUTLER

ANIMAL GENETICS AND BREEDING:

J.L.LUSH (JAY LAURENCE LUSH)- father of animal breeding.

WILLIAM BATESON – father of animal genetics.

VETERINARY BIOCHEMISTRY:

CARL ALEXANDER NEUBERG – father of modern biochemistry.

• The term ‘biochemistry’ was also coined by carl neuberg.

VETERINARY MEDICINE:

RENATUS VEGETIUS – father of veterinary medicine.

WILLIAM OSLER – father of modern medicine.

VETERINARY PATHOLOGY:RUDOLF VIRCHOW – father of ‘cellular pathology’ (microscopic pathology).

JOHN HUNTER – father of experimental pathology.

LEO MEYER JONES – Father of modern veterinary pharmacology.

SIR COL.RAM NATH CHOPRA – father of Indian pharmacology.

MATHIEU ORFILA – Father of toxicology.

SIR COL.RAM NATH CHOPRA

LEO MEYER JONES

MATHIEU ORFILA

ANIMAL NUTRITION:

ANTOINE LAVOISIER – Founder of the science of nutrition / father of nutrition and also known as father of chemistry.

FRANCOIS MAGENDIE – Founder of the modern experimental method in animal feeding experiments.

EXTENSION EDUCATION:

Dr. K.N. SINGH (Dr. KEDAR NATH SINGH) – Father of extension education in Indian context.

Dr.J.P. LEAGANS (USA) – Father of extension education.

SURGERY:

SUSHRUTA – Founding father of surgery(India).

JOHN HUNTER – Father of modern scientific surgery.

WILHELM FABRY – Father of german surgery.

GYNAECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS:

JAMES MARION SIMS – Father of modern gynaecology.