Father and Founder of Nursing and medical: The medical field is bliss for humanity. Life can be saved, and the practice of the person can heal wounds. The life count on the medical profession. But to be honest, the persons who found the skills, the treatment, research, discoverers needed to be remembered and humankind should always be grateful to them.
Here are some founder, fathers and persons who uplifted the values of their profession, let’s discuss and remember them.
Founder of Nursing
Father/founder/important person | Names of personality |
Father of medicine | Hippocrates |
Father of microbiology | Louis Pasteur |
Father of Modern Bacteriology | Robert Koch |
Founder of the modern nursing | Florence Nightingale Known as “lady with the lamp.”“Environmental theory” given by herEstablished 1st nursing school at St. Thomas Hospital, London |
First Psychiatric Nurse | Linda Richards |
First American nurse | Linda Richards |
The first president of the American Red Cross | Clare Barton Also known as Battlefield Nurse |
Founder of Frontier nursing service | Mary Breckinridge Brought midwifery and infant healthcare |
First black nurse in US Profession | Mary Eliza Mahoney |
Early nursing pioneer | Dorothea Dix She revolutionized health care for the mentally ill |
Founder of Orthopedic Nurse | Dame Agnes Hunt |
The first lady of nursing | Virginia Henderson |
First public health nurse in the US | Lillian D. Wald |
Promoted nursing as a respectable nursing | Lystra Gretter |
Pioneer in Nursing autonomy and nurse-driven care | Lydia Hall |
Pioneer in improving the care of dying patients by managing symptoms | Florence Wald |
First Polio Vaccine discovered by | Jonas Salk |
Penicillin discovered by | Alexander Flemming |
Polio rehabilitation pioneer | Elizabeth Kenny |
First trauma nurse | Elizabeth Scanlan Trump |
Father of modern science | Galileo galiei |
Father of science (ancient) | Thales |
Father of Biogeography | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Father of biology | Aristotle |
Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
Father of ecology | Carl Linnaeus, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenius Warming |
Father of entomology | JanSwammerdam, Johan Christian Fabricius |
Father of Ethology | NIkolaas Tinbergen, Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz |
Father of evolution | Charles Darwin |
Father of Zoology | Aristotle |
Father of virology | Dmitry Ivanosky, Martinus Beijerinck |
Father of taxonomy | Carl Linnaeus |
Father of protozoology | Antonie Van Leeu |
Father of parasitology | Francesco Redi |
Father of Indian Surgery | Sushruta |
Father of Epidemiology | John Snow |
Father of Indian Medicine | Charak |
Father of molecular biology | Linus Pauling |
Father of Lichenology | Erik Acharius |
Father of Ichthyology | Peter Artedi |
Founder of modern nursing
There were many professions, medicine, technology and equipment which we use daily to safe life. And people who discover it were forgotten. Above were listed very few persons who played a vital role in the medical field and many more were still not known. The reorganization is needed as it inspires generations, to understand the power of discovery, inventions.
Florence Nightingale
for professional nursing founder is Florence Nightingale
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