Scientists who were Christian’s.
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) put forward the first mathematically based system of planets going around the sun.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1627) was a philosopher known for establishing the scientific method of inquiry based on experimentation and inductive reasoning.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a brilliant mathematician and astronomer. He did early work on light and established the laws of planetary motion about the sun.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is remembered for his conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. His controversial work on the solar system was published in 1633.
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher called the father of modern philosophy.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and theologian. He published a treatise on projective geometry and established the foundation for probability theory in mathematics.
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) In optics, mechanics, and mathematics, Newton was a figure of undisputed genius and innovation. He saw mathematics and numbers as central in all his science (including chemistry).
Robert Boyle (1791-1867) Boyle gave his name to “Boyle’s Law” for gases and also wrote an important work on chemistry.
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the most outstanding scientists of the 19th century. His work on electricity and magnetism not only revolutionized physics but led to much of our lifestyles today.
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) laid the mathematical foundations of genetics in what came to be called “Mendelianism”.
William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907) helped lay the foundations of modern physics.
Max Planck (1858-1947) is best known for quantum theory, revolutionizing our understanding of the atomic and sub-atomic worlds.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is best known and is associated with significant revolutions in our thinking about time, gravity, and the conversion of matter to energy. Einstein never came to a personal belief in God but did recognize the impossibility of a non-created universe.
It has been said, “Once the basic principles are understood, then everything else will fall into place.”