List of people considered father or mother of a field

Often, discoveries and innovations are the work of multiple people, resulting from continual improvements over time.

However, certain individuals are remembered for making significant contributions to the birth or development of a field or technology.

Dave Arneson Marcian Hoff[69] Stanley MazorMasatoshi Shima[70] Donald Davies[72] Larry Roberts learned about Davies' and Baran's work at the inaugural Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in October 1967.

He and Leonard Kleinrock subsequently worked on the ARPANET, but their claims to have originated the concept of packet switching are disputed by other Internet pioneers,[79][80][81] including by Robert Taylor,[82] Paul Baran,[83] and Donald Davies.

[84][85] Philo T. Farnsworth[132] Vladimir Zworykin[133][134] John Logie Baird[135][136]