Does anyone know anything about a Christian Huygens the scientist?
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Here is an interesting looking page:\n\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Huygens.html\n\nIt seems like he was also quite the music theorist.\n\nhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/english/huygens.html\n\nThe Probe which landed on Titan was called Huygens because it was he who discovered Titan.  He also discovered the true nature of Saturn's rings and also discovered some lunar features.\n\nhttp://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html\nhttp://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Huygens.html
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Stephen Hawking - see http://www.washington.edu/doit/Press/hawking3.html\n\nand \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_hawkin\n\nI hope this helps - Good Luck!!!
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His name was Alessandro Volta.  Alessandro Volta discovered the first practical method of generating electricity.  In 1800, he arranged zinc and copper discs in a column and invented the battery.  His most famous invention was the voltic pile. \n\nThese links should give you all the good stuff!
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The prevailing intellectuals of the day persecuted him and dragged the Roman Catholic Church into it with them. They disagreed with his interpretations of scientific data and with the way that he gathered & publicized his data, so they mocked and threatened him. Kind of like darwinists and liberal churches today.\n\nAccording to Thomas Schirrmacher at http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i1/galileo.asp , "Contrary to legend, both Galileo and the Copernican system were well regarded by church officials. Galileo was the victim of his own arrogance, the envy of his colleagues and the politics of Pope Urban VIII. He was not accused of criticising the Bible, but disobeying a papal decree." (This article is pretty long. Here's a shorter article by Russell Grigg: http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i4/galileo.asp )
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http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Huygens/RouseBall/RB_Huygens.html\n\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Huygens.html\n\nhttp://www.d.umn.edu/~aroos/huygens1.htm
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oh yeah, he was the guy that discovered that thing like ummm, yeah, ok hold on while I cut & paste please....\n\nHe began his professional life as a lawyer, but he has become best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses. In the context of his time, such methods were connected with the occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy.
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An interesting point you make, and it is, indeed, true. During the scientific revolution, most of the scientists that participated in it were Christians. Isaac Newton, for example, had believed that his discoveries concerning light and universal gravitation had to do with God. Many scientists were Christians, and did not perceive science as simply an endeavour in which one attempts to legitimately answer a question. Many of these scientists were those who had viewed science as a way of understanding the mind of God. It was thought by many of these prominent scientists (Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, and many others) that, if one were to better understand the universe through science, they could see God in all creations and discoveries. In fact, during the scientific revolution, one scientist said that "Science is thinking God's thought's after him." This quote really embodies the basic reason for scientists' devotion to science during the revolution. God was the driving force for many of the scientists, along with interest and the spirit of inquiry.
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1- Albert Eienstien ( His work in explaining the electrophotonic cell based on quantum mechanics)...note: this is not his greatest work, the theory of relativity is more important but it was not understandable by other scientists that time.\n\n2- Maxwell ( His work in establish the Electromagnetic Theory ).\n\n3- NIELS BOHR (for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them)\n\n4- WERNER HEISENBERG (for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen)\n\n5-  WOLFGANG PAULI (for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle)
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He was on the committe that investigated the Challenger explosion.\n\nHe developed the sum over histories method to explain the motion of an electron as it exhibited wave characteristics through a double slit.\n\nHe developed a unique geometric proof that orbiting paths are elliptical.\n\nThere are a few for you off the top of my head.
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Pauling, Linus Carl (1901-1994), American chemist and physicist, whose investigations into the structure of molecules led to discoveries of how chemicals bond.\n\nPauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 28, 1901, and educated at Oregon State College and the California Institute of Technology. He began to apply his insights into quantum physics as Professor of Chemistry at the institute, where from 1927 to 1964 he made many of his discoveries. By devising techniques such as X-ray and electron diffraction, he was able to calculate interatomic distances and the angles between chemical bonds.\n\nDuring the 1930s Pauling introduced concepts that helped reveal the bonding forces of molecules. The Nature of the Chemical Bond, the result of these investigations, has been a major influence on scientific thinking since it was published in 1939. Pauling also investigated the atomic structure of proteins, including haemoglobin, and discovered that cell deformity in sickle-cell anaemia is caused by a genetic defect that influences the production of haemoglobin. He was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work. In later years Pauling fought ardently against nuclear weapons testing, warning the public of the biological dangers of radioactive fallout, and presented a petition to the United Nations in 1958 signed by over 11,000 other scientists. In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the second person, after Marie Curie, to win two Nobel Prizes.\n\nThroughout his scientific career, Pauling followed his creative hunches, no matter how controversial they were. In 1970, for example, he advocated large doses of vitamin C to treat the common cold—a belief, however, that few medical authorities have endorsed.
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Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, \n\n\n(4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history.\n\nNewton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica wherein he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from this system, he was the first to show that the motion of bodies on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws. The unifying and deterministic power of his laws was integral to the scientific revolution and the advancement of heliocentrism.\n\nAmong other scientific discoveries, Newton realized that the spectrum of colours observed when white light passes through a prism is inherent in the white light and not added by the prism (as Roger Bacon had claimed in the 13th century), and notably argued that light is composed of particles. He also developed a law of cooling, describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air. He enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of stars.\n\nAmong Westerners, Newton played a major role in the history of calculus, sharing credit with Gottfried Leibniz. He also made contributions to other areas of mathematics, having derived the binomial theorem in its entirety. The mathematician and mathematical physicist Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), said that "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish
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The name of the 16th Century Danish astronomer is "Tycho Brahe".  For more information on his check out this website;\nhttp://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html\nHope this helped answer your question.
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I think you mean Desiderius Erasmus. He was a prominent Dutch humanist, theologian and philosopher who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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The first person I thought of was Gregor Mendel, but everyone already pretty much knew that plants were alive already, he just showed that they have genetics.
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I'd say Galileo was a victim of the ignorant Catholic church, not a victim of his own research...although he did harm his eyes by looking at the sun through his telescope without any kind of filter :)\n\nNewton did experiments in optics on his own eyes, sometimes by sticking needles into them.  He had cataracts and other eye problems later on, almost certainly caused by his experiments.  He also went a bit mad later in life, and samples of his hair taken a few years ago showed high levels of lead in his system -- a result of his alchemical experiments.  It almost certainly hastened his death.\n\nJoseph Priestly, who "discovered" oxygen, used to put on a mask to breath the "vapors" of various gases, some of which were highly toxic...he passed out numerous times and nearly killed himself quite a few times.\n\nThere are a lot more -- do a web search and you'll find a bunch.
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Leonardo da Vinci.  Not a scientist, per se, but he did explore scientific thought and was a remarkable engineer and inventor.  Fascinating guy.
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Johann Wolfgang!\n\nHe discovered furfural, worked on the use of platinum as a catalyst, and invented a lighter, known as Döbereiner's Lamp.\n\n:)