The alchemist Robert Boyle is credited as being the father of chemistry.

During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">

It was erected to honour the memory of the Reverend R. H. Emmerson ( 1826-1857 ), father of the former premier of New Brunswick, Henry Robert Emmerson | H. R. Emmerson.

Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

* Christian Bunsen ( librarian ) ( 1770 – 1837 ), chief librarian of Göttingen and professor of modern philology, father of Robert Bunsen

Despite his growing admiration for Wallace and his cause, Robert is dominated by his father, who wishes to secure the throne for his son by submitting to the English.

Robert the Bruce, intending to join Wallace and commit troops to the war, sets up a meeting with him in Edinburgh where Robert's father has conspired with other nobles to capture and hand over Wallace to the English.

Learning of his treachery, Robert the Bruce disowns his father.

** Robert Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), physician, father of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

Marion Zimmer Bradley refers to him as " a second father ," Frederik Pohl calls him " a founder ," and Robert Silverberg says he was " seriously underrated " and " one of the great shapers of science-fiction publishing in the United States.

Nine years earlier, Robert Hardy had played Donald's father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in the BBC2 Playhouse television drama " Speed King "-both were written by Roger Milner and produced by Innes Lloyd.

* Robert Waring Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), father of the naturalist Charles Darwin

In the end, Robert Tisdall and Erica Burgoyne are united, with Erica's father smiling benevolently.

Along with J. Robert Oppenheimer, he is frequently referred to as " the father of the atomic bomb ".

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

His father introduced him to the Neapolitan nobility and the French-influenced court of Robert the Wise in the 1330s.

Robert II crowned his son — Hugh Magnus — as King of the Franks at age 10 to secure the succession, but Hugh Magnus rebelled against his father and died fighting him in 1025.

This sought to bar Prince Henry from both thrones by stipulating that if either King William or Duke Robert died without an heir, the two dominions of their father would be reunited under the surviving brother.

Must was created by Harry Roberts and his father Robert Roberts in 1910 as a non-alcoholic alternative to beer.

Scarlett was born in Jamaica, where his father, Robert Scarlett, had property.

In a note prefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, Robert Browning tells us that " On the early death of his father, he ( Edward Moulton ) was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as ward to the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit.

Rock has actively raised Robert Jr., born in 1993, as a single father since birth, and continues to live with him in Michigan.

Today, he is often regarded as the father of germ theory and bacteriology, together with Robert Koch.

* Robert Ormond Maugham, English barrister and father of Somerset Maugham

* María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, ( 11 September 1880 – 17 October 1904 ), married on 14 February 1901 to Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and titular heiress from the death of her father until the posthumous birth of her brother

Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala also had another son by an unknown father other than the King.

Alphonsus a Sancta Maria, or Alphonso de Cartagena ( 1396 – July 12, 1456 ), Spanish historian, was born at Cartagena, and succeeded his father, Paulus, as bishop of Burgos.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

He married the heiress of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, whose father had inherited the castle and estate of Abergavenny, and was summoned in 1392 to parliament as Lord Bergavenny.

His father, Étienne Pascal ( 1588 – 1651 ), who also had an interest in science and mathematics, was a local judge and member of the " Noblesse de Robe ".

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

After the death of her father, she travels to America and is abducted by Indians during the French-Indian Wars and eventually marries one of her captors, a French officer named Philippe de Saint-Christophe ( or Christopher ).

The Historia Roderici calls her a daughter of a Count Diego of Oviedo, a person unknown to contemporary records, while later poetic sources name her father as an otherwise unknown Count Gomez de Gormaz.

He was accompanied by Anjiro, two other Japanese men, the father Cosme de Torrès and Brother João Fernandes.

As a young man, Madero's father sent him to the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris ( HEC ).

In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.

On June 28, 1846, Berreyesa's father, José de los Reyes Berreyesa, an elderly man, crossed the San Francisco Bay and landed near the area known as San Quentin with two cousins, twin sons of Francisco de Haro, who were 19 years old, to visit his own sons in jail.

His father was a devoted adherent of the Medici party, but Luigi, smarting under a supposed injustice, joined with others in an unsuccessful conspiracy against Giulio de ' Medici, afterwards Pope Clement VII.

The Comte de Mirabeau wrote a scathing indictment of lettres de cachet while imprisoned in the dungeon of Vincennes ( by lettre de cachet obtained by his father ).

* Honoré Mirabeau, Des Lettres de Cachet et des prisons d ' état ( Hamburg, 1782 ), written in the dungeon at Vincennes into which his father had thrown him by a lettre de cachet, one of the ablest and most eloquent of his works, which had an immense circulation and was translated into English in 1788.

Lorenzo's father, Piero ' the Gouty ' de ' Medici, was also at the center of Florentine life, active as an art patron and collector.

Bloch's methodology was also greatly influenced by his father, Gustave Bloch, a historian of the ancient world, and by 19th-century scholars such as Gabriel Monod, Ernest Renan, and Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges.

Records of these meetings are given in Charles de Brosses ' Lettres sur l ' Italie and in the Propositiones Philosophicae, which her father had published in 1738.

Born Anne de Lenclos in Paris, she was nicknamed " Ninon " by her father at an early age.