Bible-Believing Men who Founded (or Made Major Contributions to) Scientific Disciplines
(after Henry Morris)
Scientist | Contribution |
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) | Scientific method |
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) | Physical astronomy, Laws of planetary motion |
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) | Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, Differential calculus, Probability |
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) | Modern chemistry, Gas dynamics |
John Ray (1627-1705) | Natural history (Biology) |
Nicolas Steno (1631-1686) | Stratigraphy |
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | Dynamics, Calculus, Gravitation |
Karl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus) (1707-1778)………. | Taxonomy (Biological classification) |
William Herschel (1738-1822) | Galactic astronomy |
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) | Electromagnetics |
Joseph Henry (1797-1878) | Electric motor |
Matthew Maury (1806-1873) | Oceanography |
James Joule (1818-1889) | Thermodynamics |
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) | Bacteriology |
Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915) | Entomology (Insect biology) |
William Thompson (Lord Kelvin) (1824-1907) | Energetics, Absolute temperatures |
Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) | Non-Euclidean geometry |
Joseph Lister (1827-1912) | Antiseptic surgery |
Joseph Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) | Electrodynamics, Thermodynamics |
John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945) | Electronics |