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[[Science in the Muslim world]] has played an important role in the [[history of science]]. There have also been some notable Muslim scientists in the present day. The following is an incomplete '''list of notable Muslim scientists'''. |
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Revision as of 23:45, 12 May 2007
Science in the Muslim world has played an important role in the history of science. There have also been some notable Muslim scientists in the present day. The following is an incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists.
Astronomy
- Taqi al-Din, Ottoman astronomer
- Al-Khwarizmi, also a mathematician.
- Ulugh Beg, also a mathematician.
- Omar Khayyám
- al-Farghani
- Ibrahim al-Fazari
- Muhammad al-Fazari
Chemistry
- Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Prize, 1999
- Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan, (Geber)
Geography
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer
Mathematicians
- Al-Samawal
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Jamshid al-Kashi
- Abu Kamil
- Abu Sahl al-Kuhi
- Abu Bakr al-Karaji
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Ahmad ibn Yusuf
- Al-Jawhari
- Al-Kindi
- Alhazen
- Biruni
- Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer.
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, 13th Century Persian mathematician and philosopher
- Al-Farisi
- Al-Mardini
- Sibt al-Mardini
Medicine
- Abul Hasan al-Tabari - physician
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physician
- Al-Zahrawi - physician
- Avicenna, (Ibn Sina) also a philosopher
- Saghir Akhtar pharmacist
- Rhazes (Al Razi), also a chemist
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Al-Farisi
Physics
- Muhammad Ali Tariq, The 12 years old scientist of Pakistan
- Averroes, 12th Century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medicine expert
- Al-Jazari, 13th Century civil engineer
- Mahmoud Hessaby, 20th Century Iranian physicist
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 20th Century Indonesian aerospace engineer and president
- Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize, 1979, Pakistani
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, Nuclear Scientist, Pakistani
- Ibn al-Haytham