A) RH Whittaker
B) Pasteur
C) Einthoven
D) Thomas Addison
Correct Answer: D
Solution :
The father of Endocrinology is "Thomas Addison'. The first endocrine disease reported was Addison's disease (1855), caused by the destruction of adrenal cortex. R H Whittaker (1969), an American Ecologist proposed a five kingdom classificaion of the living world comprising Monera, Protista, Plantae, Fungi and Animalia. Louis Pasteur (1880) a French scientist, developed the first true vaccine (consisting of weakened micro-organisms) against chicken cholera.
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