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[[Islamic science|Science in the Islamic 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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Science in the Islamic 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 and Astrophysics
- 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
- Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Geber), father of chemistry
- Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Prize, 1999
Geography
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer
- Biruni, father of geodesy, considered the "first anthropologist"
Mathematicians
- Al-Samawal
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Jamshid al-Kashi
- Abu Kamil
- Abu Sahl al-Kuhi
- Abu Bakr al-Karaji
- Al-Khwarizmi - father of algebra and algorithms
- 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
- Abu al-Qasim (Abulcasis) - father of modern surgery
- Abul Hasan al-Tabari - physician
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physician
- Al-Zahrawi - physician
- Avicenna, (Ibn Sina) also a philosopher
- Saghir Akhtar pharmacist
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Al-Farisi
Physics
- Alhacen (Ibn al-Haytham), 11th century Iraqi scientist, father of optics, pioneer of the scientific method, considered the "first scientist"
- Averroes, 12th century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medicine expert
- Al-Jazari, 13th century civil engineer, father of robotics, father of modern engineering
- 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