Famous Personalities and Discoveries

Alan Cooper is widely regarded as the father of Visual Basic for his work on the visual design paradigm that became Visual Basic while at Microsoft. Yukihiro Matsumoto created Ruby, Guido van Rossum created Python, and Rasmus Lerdorf created PHP.

Vannoccio Biringuccio authored 'De la pirotechnia' (1540), the first comprehensive printed work on metallurgy and foundry practice. This pioneering book systematically documented metal casting techniques, establishing him as the father of the foundry industry.

James Gosling is widely recognized as the father of the Java programming language. He created the original design and implementation of Java at Sun Microsystems in the mid-1990s. Bill Smith, Jame Smith, and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail co-founder) are not associated with Java's creation.

Archibald Garrod is known as 'Father of human genetics' for describing that the inborn errors of metabolism are governed by genes and are inherited in a Mendelian pattern.

Aryabhatta (476-550 A.D.), one of the world's greatest mathematician astronomer, was born in Patliputra in Magadha, modern Patna in Bihar. He was the first person who told that earth is round not flat.

Correct answer :- (3) Gregor Johann Mendel

Classical economists include Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and James Mill (Jeremy Bentham was also influential in this period). Milton Friedman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the 20th century associated with monetarism and the Chicago School, making him distinctly NOT a classical economist.

Moses is traditionally credited as the founder/lawgiver of Judaism. According to the Torah, he received the Ten Commandments and the Law at Mount Sinai and led the Israelites out of Egypt. Prophet Mohammed founded Islam, Jesus Christ founded Christianity, and the answer 'None of these' is incorrect since Moses is indeed recognized as Judaism's founding figure.

Stephen Hawking wrote 'A Brief History of Time' (1987), one of the best-selling science books ever. It explains cosmology, black holes, and the universe's origins for general readers. Hawking was a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Cambridge.

He was a Czech sexologist, who is famed for creating phallometry, i.e. the complete measurement of sexual arousal in males.

Paul Ehrlich is regarded as the father of chemotherapy for his pioneering work in developing chemical compounds to treat specific diseases, most notably Salvarsan for syphilis. He established the principle of selective toxicity.

Indians developed the decimal system with place value notation and the concept of zero, which was later transmitted to the Arab world and then to Europe. This revolutionary mathematical system made calculations significantly easier compared to Roman numerals.

Binet is the father of intelligence test.

Father of Non-Directive Counselling is Carl Rogers.