Catholic Scientists: A Concise List of Scientists, Who Are Catholic!
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1. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) – mathematician who wrote on differential and integral calculus
2. Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) – father of mineralogy
3. André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) – one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism
4. Mariano Artigas (1938–2006) – Spanish physicist, philosopher and theologian who received the Templeton Foundation Prize in 1995
5. Leopold Auenbrugger (1722–1809) – first to use percussion as a diagnostic technique in medicine
6. Adrien Auzout (1622–1691) – astronomer who contributed to the development of the telescopic micrometer
7. Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856) – noted for contributions to molecular theory and Avogadro's Law
8. Francisco J. Ayala (1934–present) – Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine]
9. Stephen M. Barr (1953–present) – professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware and a member of its Bartol Research Institute
10. Laura Bassi (1711–1778) – physicist at the University of Bologna and Chair in experimental physics at the Bologna Institute of Sciences, the first woman to be offered a professorship at a European university
11. Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878) – pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena
12. Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) – awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his co-discovery of radioactivity
13. John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) – British pioneer in X-ray crystallography in molecular biology
14. Claude Bernard (1813–1878) – physiologist who helped to apply scientific methodology to medicine
15. Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786–1856) – mathematician known for Binet's formula and his contributions to number theory
16. Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) – physicist who established the reality of meteorites and studied polarization of light
17. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679) – often referred to as the father of modern biomechanics
18. Raoul Bott (1923–2005) – mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense]
19. Louis Braille (1809–1852) – inventor of the Braille reading and writing system
20. Edouard Branly (1844–1940) – inventor and physicist known for his involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer
21. James Britten (1846–1924) – botanist, member of the Catholic Truth Society and Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
22. Hermann Brück (1905–2000) – Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1957–1975; honored by Pope John Paul II
23. Albert Brudzewski (c. 1445–c.1497) – first to state that the Moon moves in an ellipse
24. Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010): Italian physicist, discoverer of the universality of weak interactions (Cabibbo angle), President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences from 1993 until his death
25. Alexis Carrel (1873–1944) – awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering vascular suturing techniques
26. John Casey (mathematician) (1820–1891) – Irish geometer known for Casey's theorem
27. Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712) – first to observe four of Saturn's moons and the co-discoverer of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter
28. Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) – mathematician who was an early pioneer in analysis
29. Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647) – mathematician known for his work in optics and motion, calculus, and for introducing logarithms to Italy
30. Andrea Cesalpino (c.1525–1603) – botanist who also theorized on the circulation of blood
31. Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) – published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone
32. Guy de Chauliac (c.1300–1368) – the most eminent surgeon of the Middle Ages
33. Albert Claude (1899–1983) – awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contributions to cytology
34. Christopher Clavius (1538–1612) – Jesuit who was the main architect of the Gregorian calendar
35. Mateo Realdo Colombo (1516–1559) – discovered the pulmonary circuit, ]which paved the way for Harvey's discovery of circulation
36. Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984) – shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his wife for their discovery of the Cori cycle
37. Gerty Cori (1896–1957) – biochemist who was the first American woman win a Nobel Prize in science (1947)
38. Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843) – formulated laws regarding rotating systems, which later became known as the Corialis effect
39. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) – physicist known for developing Coulomb's law
40. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) – first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology
41. René Descartes (1596–1650) – father of modern philosophy and analytic geometry
42. Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859) – mathematicians who contributed to number theory and was one of the first to give the modern formal definition of a function
43. Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) – historian of science who made important contributions to hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics
44. Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884) – chemist who established new values for the atomic mass of thirty elements
45. John Eccles (1903–1997) – Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the synapse [16]
46. Stephan Endlicher (1804–1849) – botanist who formulated a major system of plant classification
47. Gerhard Ertl (1936– ) – German physicist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
48. Bartolomeo Eustachi (c.1500–1574) – one of the founders of human anatomy
49. Hieronymus Fabricius (1537–1619) – father of embryology
50. Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562) – pioneering Italian anatomist who studied the human ear and reproductive organs
51. Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996) – Roman Catholic sister and mathematician, founder of Sister Celine's polynomials
52. Hervé Faye (1814–1902) – astronomer whose discovery of the periodic comet 4P/Faye won him the 1844 Lalande Prize and membership in the French Academy of Sciences
53. Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) – number theorist who contributed to the early development of calculus
54. Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) – awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work in induced radioactivity
55. Jean Fernel (1497–1558) – physician who introduced the term physiology
56. Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896) – first person to determine experimentally the velocity of light[18]
57. Léon Foucault (1819–1868) – invented the Foucault pendulum to measure the effect of the earth's rotation
58. Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826) – discovered Fraunhofer lines in the sun's spectrum
59. Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) – made significant contributions to the theory of wave optics
60. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) – father of modern science
61. Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) – formulated the theory of animal electricity
62. William Gascoigne (1610–1644) – developed the first micrometer
63. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) – French astronomer and mathematician who studied the transit of Mercury and named the aurora borealis
64. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850) – chemist known for two laws related to gases
65. Riccardo Giacconi (1931– ) – Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy
66. Paula González (1932–present) – Roman Catholic sister and professor of biology
67. Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663) – Jesuit who discovered the diffraction of light
68. Robert Grosseteste (c.1175–1253) – called "the first man to write down a complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment"
69. Peter Grünberg (1939– ) – German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
70. Johannes Gutenberg (c.1398–1468) – inventor of the printing press
71. Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (1783–1875) – one of the pioneers of modern geology
72. John Harsanyi (1929–2000) – Hungarian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner
73. Eduard Heis (1806–1877) – astronomer who contributed the first true delineation of the Milky Way
74. Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644) – founder of pneumatic chemistry
75. George de Hevesy (1885–1966) – Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate
76. Charles Hermite (1822–1901) – mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, elliptic functions, and algebra
77. John Philip Holland (1840–1914) – developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy
78. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836) – first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants
79. Mary Kenneth Keller (c.1914–1985) – Sister of Charity and first American woman to earn a PhD in computer science, helped develop BASIC
80. Eusebio Kino (1645–1711) – Jesuit missionary and cartographer who drew maps based on his explorations, first showing that California was not an island as was then believed
81. Athanasius Kircher (c.1601–1680) – Jesuit scholar, has been called "the last Renaissance man"
82. Brian Kobilka (1955– ) – American Nobel Prize winning professor who teaches at Stanford University School of Medicine
83. Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713–1762) – French astronomer noted for cataloguing stars, nebulous objects, and constellations
84. René Laennec (1781–1826) – physician who invented the stethoscope
85. Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) – mathematician and astronomer known for Lagrangian points and Lagrangian mechanics
86. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) – French naturalist, biologist and academic whose theories on evolution preceded those of Darwin
87. Johann von Lamont (1805–1879) – astronomer and physicist who studied the magnetism of the Earth and was the first to calculate the mass of Uranus
88. Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943) – Nobel Prize winner who identified and classified the human blood types
89. Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833) – pioneer in entomology
90. Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) – father of modern chemistry
91. Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994) – pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities
92. Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694) – father of comparative physiology
93. Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812) – discovered the polarization of light
94. Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774) – anatomist and anatomical wax artist who lectured at the University of Bologna
95. Giovanni Manzolini (1700–1755) – anatomical wax artist and Professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna
96. Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) – father of wireless technology and radio transmission
97. Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) – known for the Maupertuis principle and for being the first president of the Berlin Academy of Science
98. Michele Mercati (1541–1593) – one of the first to recognize prehistoric stone tools as man-made
99. Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) – father of acoustics and mathematician for whom Mersenne primes are named
100. Charles W. Misner (1932–present) – American cosmologist dedicated to the study of general relativity
101. Kenneth R. Miller (1948–present) – American cell biologist and molecular biologist who teaches at Brown University
102. Mario J. Molina (1943–present) – Mexican chemist, one of the precursors to the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole (1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
103. Peter Joseph Moloney (1891–1989) – Canadian immunologist and pioneering vaccine researcher, who worked out the first large-scale purification of insulin in 1922; International Gairdner Award, 1967)
104. Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) – father of descriptive geometry
105. John J. Montgomery (1858–1911) – American physicist and inventor of gliders and aerodynamics
106. Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771) – father of modern anatomical pathology
107. Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858) – founder of modern physiology
108. Joseph Murray (1919–2012) – Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate
109. John von Neumann (1903–1957) – Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath who converted to Catholicism
110. Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770) – discovered the phenomenon of osmosis in natural membranes
111. Martin Nowak (1965-present) – evolutionary theorist and Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University.
112. William of Ockham (c.1288–c.1348) – Franciscan friar known for Ockham's Razor
113. Nicole Oresme (c.1320–1382) – 14th-century bishop who theorized the daily rotation of the earth on its axis
114. Barnaba Oriani (1752–1832) – known for Oriani's theorem and for his research on Uranus
115. Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) – created the first modern atlas and theorized on continental drift
116. Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) – French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher
117. Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) – father of bacteriology
118. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) – discovered the Orion Nebula
119. Max Perutz (1914–2002) – Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
120. Georg von Peuerbach (1423–1461) – called the father of mathematical and observational astronomy in the West [41]
121. John Polanyi (1929– ) – Canadian chemist, won the 1986 Nobel Prize for his research in chemical kinetics [43]
122. Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) – Hungarian polymath, made contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy
123. Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998) – Croatian-Swiss organic chemist, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for chemistry
124. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) – awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions to neuroscience
125. René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757) – scientific polymath known especially for his study of insects
126. Francesco Redi (1626–1697) – his experiments with maggots were a major step in overturning the idea of spontaneous generation
127. Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) – chemist with two laws governing the specific heat of gases named after him[44]
128. Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853–1925) – one of the founders of tensor calculus
129. Gilles de Roberval (1602–1675) – mathematician who studied the geometry of infinitesimals and was one of the founders of kinematic geometry
130. Frederick Rossini (1899–1990) – Priestley Medal and Laetare Medal-winning chemist
131. Theodor Schwann (1810–1882) – founder of the theory of the cellular structure of animal organisms
132. Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865) – early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, discoverer of the cause of puerperal fever
133. Louis Jacques Thénard (1777–1857) – discovered hydrogen peroxide
134. Theodoric of Freiberg (c.1250–c.1310) – gave the first geometrical analysis of the rainbow
135. Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) – inventor of the barometer
136. Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482) – Italian mathematician, astronomer and cosmographer
137. Richard Towneley (1629–1707) – mathematician and astronomer whose work contributed to the formulation of Boyle's Law
138. Louis René Tulasne (1815–1885) – biologist with several genera and species of fungi named after him
139. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829) – discovered the chemical element beryllium
140. Pierre Vernier (1580–1637) – mathematician who invented the Vernier scale
141. Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877) – mathematician who predicted the discovery of Neptune
142. Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) – father of modern human anatomy
143. François Viète (1540–1603) – father of modern algebra
144. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) – Renaissance anatomist, scientist, mathematician and painter
145. Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703) – mathematician known for Viviani's theorem, Viviani's curve and his work in determining the speed of sound
146. Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) – physicist known for the invention of the battery
147. Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (1841–1900) – geologist and paleontologist
148. Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897) – often called the father of modern analysis
149. E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956) – English mathematician who made contributions to applied mathematics and mathematical physics
150. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) – one of the founders of scientific archaeology
151. Bertram Windle (1858–1929) – anthropologist, physician, and former president of University College Cork
152. Antonino Zichichi (1929– ) – Italian nuclear physicist, former President of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
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NOTE: This Article is Originally taken from The National Catholic Register Blog, written by Angelo Stagnaro. All credits goes to the author.
When fundamentalist atheists insist the Church is anti-science, I lay some knowledge on them. For those unfamiliar with the Church's support and defense of modern science including the incredible accomplishments or lay Catholics, I recommend perusing the following list and its links, which are taken from Wikipedia.
1. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) – mathematician who wrote on differential and integral calculus
2. Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) – father of mineralogy
3. André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) – one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism
4. Mariano Artigas (1938–2006) – Spanish physicist, philosopher and theologian who received the Templeton Foundation Prize in 1995
5. Leopold Auenbrugger (1722–1809) – first to use percussion as a diagnostic technique in medicine
6. Adrien Auzout (1622–1691) – astronomer who contributed to the development of the telescopic micrometer
7. Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856) – noted for contributions to molecular theory and Avogadro's Law
8. Francisco J. Ayala (1934–present) – Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine]
9. Stephen M. Barr (1953–present) – professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware and a member of its Bartol Research Institute
10. Laura Bassi (1711–1778) – physicist at the University of Bologna and Chair in experimental physics at the Bologna Institute of Sciences, the first woman to be offered a professorship at a European university
11. Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878) – pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena
12. Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) – awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his co-discovery of radioactivity
13. John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) – British pioneer in X-ray crystallography in molecular biology
14. Claude Bernard (1813–1878) – physiologist who helped to apply scientific methodology to medicine
15. Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786–1856) – mathematician known for Binet's formula and his contributions to number theory
16. Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) – physicist who established the reality of meteorites and studied polarization of light
17. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679) – often referred to as the father of modern biomechanics
18. Raoul Bott (1923–2005) – mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense]
19. Louis Braille (1809–1852) – inventor of the Braille reading and writing system
20. Edouard Branly (1844–1940) – inventor and physicist known for his involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer
21. James Britten (1846–1924) – botanist, member of the Catholic Truth Society and Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
22. Hermann Brück (1905–2000) – Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1957–1975; honored by Pope John Paul II
23. Albert Brudzewski (c. 1445–c.1497) – first to state that the Moon moves in an ellipse
24. Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010): Italian physicist, discoverer of the universality of weak interactions (Cabibbo angle), President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences from 1993 until his death
25. Alexis Carrel (1873–1944) – awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering vascular suturing techniques
26. John Casey (mathematician) (1820–1891) – Irish geometer known for Casey's theorem
27. Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712) – first to observe four of Saturn's moons and the co-discoverer of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter
28. Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) – mathematician who was an early pioneer in analysis
29. Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647) – mathematician known for his work in optics and motion, calculus, and for introducing logarithms to Italy
30. Andrea Cesalpino (c.1525–1603) – botanist who also theorized on the circulation of blood
31. Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) – published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone
32. Guy de Chauliac (c.1300–1368) – the most eminent surgeon of the Middle Ages
33. Albert Claude (1899–1983) – awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contributions to cytology
34. Christopher Clavius (1538–1612) – Jesuit who was the main architect of the Gregorian calendar
35. Mateo Realdo Colombo (1516–1559) – discovered the pulmonary circuit, ]which paved the way for Harvey's discovery of circulation
36. Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984) – shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his wife for their discovery of the Cori cycle
37. Gerty Cori (1896–1957) – biochemist who was the first American woman win a Nobel Prize in science (1947)
38. Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843) – formulated laws regarding rotating systems, which later became known as the Corialis effect
39. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) – physicist known for developing Coulomb's law
40. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) – first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology
41. René Descartes (1596–1650) – father of modern philosophy and analytic geometry
42. Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859) – mathematicians who contributed to number theory and was one of the first to give the modern formal definition of a function
43. Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) – historian of science who made important contributions to hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics
44. Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884) – chemist who established new values for the atomic mass of thirty elements
45. John Eccles (1903–1997) – Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the synapse [16]
46. Stephan Endlicher (1804–1849) – botanist who formulated a major system of plant classification
47. Gerhard Ertl (1936– ) – German physicist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
48. Bartolomeo Eustachi (c.1500–1574) – one of the founders of human anatomy
49. Hieronymus Fabricius (1537–1619) – father of embryology
50. Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562) – pioneering Italian anatomist who studied the human ear and reproductive organs
51. Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996) – Roman Catholic sister and mathematician, founder of Sister Celine's polynomials
52. Hervé Faye (1814–1902) – astronomer whose discovery of the periodic comet 4P/Faye won him the 1844 Lalande Prize and membership in the French Academy of Sciences
53. Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) – number theorist who contributed to the early development of calculus
54. Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) – awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work in induced radioactivity
55. Jean Fernel (1497–1558) – physician who introduced the term physiology
56. Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896) – first person to determine experimentally the velocity of light[18]
57. Léon Foucault (1819–1868) – invented the Foucault pendulum to measure the effect of the earth's rotation
58. Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826) – discovered Fraunhofer lines in the sun's spectrum
59. Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) – made significant contributions to the theory of wave optics
60. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) – father of modern science
61. Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) – formulated the theory of animal electricity
62. William Gascoigne (1610–1644) – developed the first micrometer
63. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) – French astronomer and mathematician who studied the transit of Mercury and named the aurora borealis
64. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850) – chemist known for two laws related to gases
65. Riccardo Giacconi (1931– ) – Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy
66. Paula González (1932–present) – Roman Catholic sister and professor of biology
67. Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663) – Jesuit who discovered the diffraction of light
68. Robert Grosseteste (c.1175–1253) – called "the first man to write down a complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment"
69. Peter Grünberg (1939– ) – German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
70. Johannes Gutenberg (c.1398–1468) – inventor of the printing press
71. Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (1783–1875) – one of the pioneers of modern geology
72. John Harsanyi (1929–2000) – Hungarian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner
73. Eduard Heis (1806–1877) – astronomer who contributed the first true delineation of the Milky Way
74. Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644) – founder of pneumatic chemistry
75. George de Hevesy (1885–1966) – Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate
76. Charles Hermite (1822–1901) – mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, elliptic functions, and algebra
77. John Philip Holland (1840–1914) – developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy
78. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836) – first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants
79. Mary Kenneth Keller (c.1914–1985) – Sister of Charity and first American woman to earn a PhD in computer science, helped develop BASIC
80. Eusebio Kino (1645–1711) – Jesuit missionary and cartographer who drew maps based on his explorations, first showing that California was not an island as was then believed
81. Athanasius Kircher (c.1601–1680) – Jesuit scholar, has been called "the last Renaissance man"
82. Brian Kobilka (1955– ) – American Nobel Prize winning professor who teaches at Stanford University School of Medicine
83. Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713–1762) – French astronomer noted for cataloguing stars, nebulous objects, and constellations
84. René Laennec (1781–1826) – physician who invented the stethoscope
85. Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) – mathematician and astronomer known for Lagrangian points and Lagrangian mechanics
86. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) – French naturalist, biologist and academic whose theories on evolution preceded those of Darwin
87. Johann von Lamont (1805–1879) – astronomer and physicist who studied the magnetism of the Earth and was the first to calculate the mass of Uranus
88. Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943) – Nobel Prize winner who identified and classified the human blood types
89. Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833) – pioneer in entomology
90. Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) – father of modern chemistry
91. Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994) – pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities
92. Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694) – father of comparative physiology
93. Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812) – discovered the polarization of light
94. Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774) – anatomist and anatomical wax artist who lectured at the University of Bologna
95. Giovanni Manzolini (1700–1755) – anatomical wax artist and Professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna
96. Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) – father of wireless technology and radio transmission
97. Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) – known for the Maupertuis principle and for being the first president of the Berlin Academy of Science
98. Michele Mercati (1541–1593) – one of the first to recognize prehistoric stone tools as man-made
99. Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) – father of acoustics and mathematician for whom Mersenne primes are named
100. Charles W. Misner (1932–present) – American cosmologist dedicated to the study of general relativity
101. Kenneth R. Miller (1948–present) – American cell biologist and molecular biologist who teaches at Brown University
102. Mario J. Molina (1943–present) – Mexican chemist, one of the precursors to the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole (1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
103. Peter Joseph Moloney (1891–1989) – Canadian immunologist and pioneering vaccine researcher, who worked out the first large-scale purification of insulin in 1922; International Gairdner Award, 1967)
104. Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) – father of descriptive geometry
105. John J. Montgomery (1858–1911) – American physicist and inventor of gliders and aerodynamics
106. Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771) – father of modern anatomical pathology
107. Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858) – founder of modern physiology
108. Joseph Murray (1919–2012) – Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate
109. John von Neumann (1903–1957) – Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath who converted to Catholicism
110. Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770) – discovered the phenomenon of osmosis in natural membranes
111. Martin Nowak (1965-present) – evolutionary theorist and Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University.
112. William of Ockham (c.1288–c.1348) – Franciscan friar known for Ockham's Razor
113. Nicole Oresme (c.1320–1382) – 14th-century bishop who theorized the daily rotation of the earth on its axis
114. Barnaba Oriani (1752–1832) – known for Oriani's theorem and for his research on Uranus
115. Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) – created the first modern atlas and theorized on continental drift
116. Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) – French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher
117. Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) – father of bacteriology
118. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) – discovered the Orion Nebula
119. Max Perutz (1914–2002) – Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
120. Georg von Peuerbach (1423–1461) – called the father of mathematical and observational astronomy in the West [41]
121. John Polanyi (1929– ) – Canadian chemist, won the 1986 Nobel Prize for his research in chemical kinetics [43]
122. Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) – Hungarian polymath, made contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy
123. Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998) – Croatian-Swiss organic chemist, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for chemistry
124. Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) – awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions to neuroscience
125. René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757) – scientific polymath known especially for his study of insects
126. Francesco Redi (1626–1697) – his experiments with maggots were a major step in overturning the idea of spontaneous generation
127. Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) – chemist with two laws governing the specific heat of gases named after him[44]
128. Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853–1925) – one of the founders of tensor calculus
129. Gilles de Roberval (1602–1675) – mathematician who studied the geometry of infinitesimals and was one of the founders of kinematic geometry
130. Frederick Rossini (1899–1990) – Priestley Medal and Laetare Medal-winning chemist
131. Theodor Schwann (1810–1882) – founder of the theory of the cellular structure of animal organisms
132. Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865) – early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, discoverer of the cause of puerperal fever
133. Louis Jacques Thénard (1777–1857) – discovered hydrogen peroxide
134. Theodoric of Freiberg (c.1250–c.1310) – gave the first geometrical analysis of the rainbow
135. Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) – inventor of the barometer
136. Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482) – Italian mathematician, astronomer and cosmographer
137. Richard Towneley (1629–1707) – mathematician and astronomer whose work contributed to the formulation of Boyle's Law
138. Louis René Tulasne (1815–1885) – biologist with several genera and species of fungi named after him
139. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829) – discovered the chemical element beryllium
140. Pierre Vernier (1580–1637) – mathematician who invented the Vernier scale
141. Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877) – mathematician who predicted the discovery of Neptune
142. Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) – father of modern human anatomy
143. François Viète (1540–1603) – father of modern algebra
144. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) – Renaissance anatomist, scientist, mathematician and painter
145. Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703) – mathematician known for Viviani's theorem, Viviani's curve and his work in determining the speed of sound
146. Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) – physicist known for the invention of the battery
147. Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (1841–1900) – geologist and paleontologist
148. Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897) – often called the father of modern analysis
149. E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956) – English mathematician who made contributions to applied mathematics and mathematical physics
150. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) – one of the founders of scientific archaeology
151. Bertram Windle (1858–1929) – anthropologist, physician, and former president of University College Cork
152. Antonino Zichichi (1929– ) – Italian nuclear physicist, former President of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
