Famous Fathers

Father of Arithmetic                                 - Aryabhata

Father of Scientific methodology               - Aristotle

Father of Computing                                - Charles Babbage

Father of Grammar                                  - Panini

Father of Taxonomy                                 - Carolus Linnaeus

Father of Genetics                                   - Gregor Mendel

Father of Calculus                                    - Issac Newton

Father of Geometry                                  - Euclid

Father of Numbers                                   - Pythagoras

Father of Psychoanalysis                           - Sigmund Freud

Father of Surgery                                     - Sushrutha

 

Not an exhaustive source of information – this is not a text book, of course. What I want to know is, is there a mother of any field of study? I browsed wiki, and the title there did say “List of people known as father or mother of something”, but my eyes failed to hit upon anything significant!