Famous Scientists who were Christians

1. John Philoponus late 6th Century Aristotle's early Christian critic
2. Hugh of St. Victor c. 1096-1141 theologian of science
3. Robert Grosseteste c. 1168-1253 reform-minded bishop-scientist
4. Roger Bacon c. 1220-1292 Doctor Mirabiles
5. Dietrich von Frieberg c. 1250-c. 1310 the priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow
6. Thomas Bradwardine c. 1290-1349 student of motion
7. Nicole Oresme c. 1320-1382 inventor of scientific graphic techniques
8. Nicholas of Cusa 1401-1464 grappler with infinity
9. Georgias Agricola 1495-1555 founder of metallurgy
10. Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 discoverer of the laws of planetary motion
11. Johannes Baptista van Helmont 1579-1644 founder of pneumatic chemistry and chemical physiology
12. Francesco Maria Grimaldi 1618-1663 discoverer of the diffraction of light Catholic
13. Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 mathematical prodigy and universal genius
14. Robert Boyle 1627-1691 founder of modern chemistry
15. John Ray 1627-1705 cataloger of British flora and fauna Calvinist (denomination?)
16. Isaac Barrow 1630-1677 Newton's teacher
17. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723 discoverer of bacteria
18. Niels Seno 1638-1686 founder of geology
19. James Bradley 1693-1762 discoverer of the aberration of starlight
20. Ewald Georg von Kleist c. 1700-1748 inventor of the Leyden jar
21. Carolus Linnaeus 1707-1778 classifer of all living things
22. Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 the prolific mathematician
23. John Dalton 1766-1844 founder of modern atomic theory
24. Thomas Young 1773-1829 first to conduct a double-slit experiment with light
25. David Brewster 1781-1868 researcher of polarized light
26. William Buckland 1784-1856 geologist of the Noahic flood
27. Adem Sedgwick 1785-1873 geologist of the Cambrian
28. Augustin-Jean Fresnel 1788-1827 the physicist of light waves
29. Augustin Louis Cauchy 1789-1857 soulwinning mathematician
30. Michael Faraday 1791-1867 giant of electrical research
31. John Frederick William Herschel 1792-1871 cataloger of the Southern skies
32. Matthew Fontaine Maury 1806-1873 pathfinder of the seas
33. Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888 popular naturalist
34. Asa Gray 1810-1888 influential botanist
35. James Dwight Dana 1813-1895 systematizer of minerology
36. George Boole 1815-1864 discoverer of pure mathematics
37. James Prescott Joule 1818-1889 originator of Joule's Law
38. John Couch Adams 1819-1892 codiscoverer of Neptune
39. George Gabriel Stokes 1819-1903 theorist of fluorescence
40. Gregor Mendel 1822-1884 pioneer in genetics
41. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin 1824-1907 physicist of thermodynammics
42. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann 1829-1907 the non-Euclidean geometer behind relativity theory
43. James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 father of modern physics
44. Edward William Morley 1838-1923 Michelson's partner in measuring the speed of light
45. Pierre-Maurice-Marie Duhem 1861-1923 the physicist who recovered the science of the Middle Ages
46. Georges Lemaitre 1894-1966 the prist who showed us the universe is expanding
47. George Washington Carver c. 1864-1943 pioneer in chemurgy
48. Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882-1944 the astronomer who ruled stellar theory