Ampere - founder of the science of electromagnetism, units of electricity names after him.
Coulomb - established the fundamental laws of Static Electricity.
Copernicus - a canon, expounded the Copernican system.
Descates - founded analytical geometry.
Marconi - radio
Gutenberg - printing
Lancisi - Papal physician, founder of clinical medicine.
Lavoisier - the Father of Modern Chemistry
Muller - founder of modern physiology.
Secchi - invented the meteorograph.
Steno - a Bishop, was the father of Geology.
Torricelli - invented the barometer.
Volta - invented the first complete galvanic battery - volt is named after him.
2007-07-18 12:59:03 · 3 answers · asked by hossteacher 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here is a list of some Catholic scientists:
Fr. Roger Boscovich - the father of modern atomic theory
Nicolaus Copernicus - the Heliocentric Universe
Marie Curie - Radioactivity
Leonardo da Vinci - Artist, Inventor, Scientist
Rene Descartes - mathematician, scientist and philosopher
Enrico Fermi - Atomic Physics
Alexander Fleming - Penicillin
Galileo Galilei - the New Science
Johannes Gutenberg - printing press inventor
Fr. Athanasius Kircher - a father of Egyptology
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier - the Revolution in Chemistry
Marcello Malpighi - Microscopic Anatomy
Guglielmo Marconi - Radio Developer
Gregor Mendel - the Laws of Inheritance
Louis Pasteur - the Germ Theory of Disease
Fr. Giambattista Riccioli - first to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body
Erwin Schrodinger - Wave Mechanics
Andreas Vesalius - the New Anatomy
John von Neumann - the Modern Computer
With love in Christ.
2007-07-18 17:17:37 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Monsignor Georges Lemaître- A priest who proposed the Big Bang Theory.
That link is a list of other scientists, I just though Lemaitre was interesting.
2007-07-18 21:07:27 · answer #2 · answered by lawlzlawlzduck 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. I am surprised.
2007-07-18 20:17:33 · answer #3 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋