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PART I. Nobel Scientists (20-21 Century)

Albert EinsteinNobel Laureate in PhysicsJewish

Max PlanckNobel Laureate in PhysicsProtestant

Erwin SchrodingerNobel Laureate in PhysicsCatholic

Werner HeisenbergNobel Laureate in PhysicsLutheran




Robert MillikanNobel Laureate in Physicsprobably Congregationalist

Charles Hard TownesNobel Laureate in PhysicsUnited Church of Christ (raised Baptist)

Arthur SchawlowNobel Laureate in PhysicsMethodist

William D. PhillipsNobel Laureate in PhysicsMethodist

William H. BraggNobel Laureate in PhysicsAnglican

Guglielmo MarconiNobel Laureate in PhysicsCatholic and Anglican

Arthur ComptonNobel Laureate in PhysicsPresbyterian

Arno PenziasNobel Laureate in PhysicsJewish

Nevill MottNobel Laureate in PhysicsAnglican

Isidor Isaac RabiNobel Laureate in PhysicsJewish

Abdus SalamNobel Laureate in PhysicsMuslim

Antony HewishNobel Laureate in PhysicsChristian (denomination?)

Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. Nobel Laureate in PhysicsQuaker

Alexis CarrelNobel Laureate in Medicine and PhysiologyCatholic

John EcclesNobel Laureate in Medicine and PhysiologyCatholic

Joseph MurrayNobel Laureate in Medicine and PhysiologyCatholic

Ernst ChainNobel Laureate in Medicine and PhysiologyJewish

George WaldNobel Laureate in Medicine and PhysiologyJewish

Ronald RossNobel Laureate in Medicine and PhysiologyChristian (denomination?)

Derek BartonNobel Laureate in ChemistryChristian (denomination?)

Christian AnfinsenNobel Laureate in ChemistryJewish

Walter KohnNobel Laureate in ChemistryJewish

Richard SmalleyNobel Laureate in ChemistryChristian (denomination?)

PART II. Nobel Writers (20-21 Century)

T.S. EliotNobel Laureate in LiteratureAnglo-Catholic (Anglican)

Rudyard KiplingNobel Laureate in LiteratureAnglican

Alexander SolzhenitsynNobel Laureate in LiteratureRussian Orthodox

François Mauriac Nobel Laureate in LiteratureCatholic

Hermann HesseNobel Laureate in LiteratureChristian; Buddhist?

Winston ChurchillNobel Laureate in LiteratureAnglican

Jean-Paul SartreNobel Laureate in LiteratureLutheran; Freudian; Marxist; atheist; Messianic Jew

Sigrid UndsetNobel Laureate in LiteratureCatholic (previously Lutheran)

Rabindranath TagoreNobel Laureate in LiteratureHindu

Rudolf EuckenNobel Laureate in LiteratureChristian (denomination?)

Isaac SingerNobel Laureate in LiteratureJewish

PART III. Nobel Peace Laureates (20-21 Century)

Albert SchweitzerNobel Peace Prize LaureateLutheran

Jimmy CarterNobel Peace Prize LaureateBaptist (former Southern Baptist)

Theodore RooseveltNobel Peace Prize LaureateDutch Reformed; Episcopalian

Woodrow WilsonNobel Peace Prize LaureatePresbyterian

Frederik de KlerkNobel Peace Prize LaureateDutch Reformed

Nelson MandelaNobel Peace Prize LaureateChristian (denomination?)

Kim Dae-JungNobel Peace Prize LaureateCatholic

Dag HammarskjoldNobel Peace Prize LaureateChristian (denomination?)

Martin Luther King, Jr.Nobel Peace Prize LaureateBaptist

Adolfo Perez EsquivelNobel Peace Prize LaureateCatholic

Desmond TutuNobel Peace Prize LaureateAnglican

John R. MottNobel Peace Prize Laureate Methodist

Part IV. Founders of Modern Science (16-21 Century)

Isaac NewtonFounder of Classical Physics and Infinitesimal CalculusAnglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism;
believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church)

Galileo GalileiFounder of Experimental PhysicsCatholic

Nicolaus CopernicusFounder of Heliocentric CosmologyCatholic (priest)

Johannes KeplerFounder of Physical Astronomy and Modern OpticsLutheran

Francis BaconFounder of the Scientific Inductive MethodAnglican

René Descartes Founder of Analytical Geometry and Modern PhilosophyCatholic

Blaise PascalFounder of Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics,
and the Theory of Probabilities
Jansenist

Michael FaradayFounder of Electronics and Electro-MagneticsSandemanian

James Clerk MaxwellFounder of Statistical ThermodynamicsPresbyterian; Anglican; Baptist

Lord KelvinFounder of Thermodynamics and EnergeticsAnglican

Robert BoyleFounder of Modern ChemistryAnglican

William HarveyFounder of Modern MedicineAnglican (nominal)

John RayFounder of Modern Biology and Natural HistoryCalvinist (denomination?)

Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGerman Mathematician and Philosopher,
Founder of Infinitesimal Calculus
Lutheran

Charles DarwinFounder of the Theory of EvolutionAnglican (nominal); Unitarian

Ernst HaeckelGerman Biologist,
the Most Influential Evolutionist in Continental Europe

Thomas H. HuxleyEnglish Biologist and Evolutionist,
Famous As "Darwin's Bulldog"

Joseph J. ThomsonNobel Laureate in Physics, Discoverer of the Electron,
Founder of Atomic Physics
Anglican

Louis PasteurFounder of Microbiology and ImmunologyCatholic

Part V. Great Philosophers (17-21 Century)

Immanuel KantOne of the Greatest Philosophers
in the History of Western Philosophy
Lutheran

Jean-Jacques RousseauFounder of Modern Deismborn Protestant;
converted as a teen to Catholic

VoltaireFrench Philosopher and Historian,
One of the Most Influential Thinkers of the Enlightenment
raised in Jansenism
David HumeScottish Empiricist Philosopher, Historian, and Economist,
Founder of Modern Skepticism
Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)
SpinozaDutch-Jewish Philosopher,
the Chief Exponent of Modern Rationalism
Judaism; later pantheism/deism
Giordano BrunoItalian Philosopher, Astronomer, and Mathematician,
Founder of the Theory of the Infinite Universe
Catholic
George BerkeleyIrish Philosopher and Mathematician, Founder of Modern Idealism,
Famous as "The Precursor of Mach and Einstein"
Anglican
John Stuart MillEnglish Philosopher and Economist,
the Major Exponent of Utilitarianism
agnostic; Utilitarian
Richard SwinburneOxford Professor of Philosophy,
One of the Most Influential Theistic Philosophers
PART VI. Other Religious Nobelists
60 more Nobel Prize winners are listed
(32 scientists, 17 writers, 11 Nobel Nobel Peace Laureates)
PART VII. Nobelists, Philosophers, and Scientists on Jesus
Quotes by 16 individuals about their beliefs about Jesus
- Alexis Carrel
- Albert Einstein
- Arthur Compton
- Robert Millikan
- Francois Mauriac
- Sigrid Undset
- T.S. Eliot
- Mother Theresa
- Albert Schweitzer
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Frederik de Klerk
- John R. Mott
- Kim Dae-Jung
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Jimmy Carter
- Blaise Pascal

Famous Scientists who were Christians

John Philoponus late 6th Century Aristotle's early Christian critic
Hugh of St. Victor c. 1096-1141 theologian of science
Robert Grosseteste c. 1168-1253 reform-minded bishop-scientist
Roger Bacon c. 1220-1292 Doctor Mirabiles
Dietrich von Frieberg c. 1250-c. 1310 the priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow
Thomas Bradwardine c. 1290-1349 student of motion
Nicole Oresme c. 1320-1382 inventor of scientific graphic techniques
Nicholas of Cusa 1401-1464 grappler with infinity
Georgias Agricola 1495-1555 founder of metallurgy
Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 discoverer of the laws of planetary motion



Johannes Baptista van Helmont 1579-1644 founder of pneumatic chemistry and chemical physiology
Francesco Maria Grimaldi 1618-1663 discoverer of the diffraction of light Catholic
Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 mathematical prodigy and universal genius
Robert Boyle 1627-1691 founder of modern chemistry
John Ray 1627-1705 cataloger of British flora and fauna Calvinist (denomination?)
Isaac Barrow 1630-1677 Newton's teacher
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723 discoverer of bacteria
Niels Seno 1638-1686 founder of geology
James Bradley 1693-1762 discoverer of the aberration of starlight
Ewald Georg von Kleist c. 1700-1748 inventor of the Leyden jar
Carolus Linnaeus 1707-1778 classifer of all living things
Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 the prolific mathematician
John Dalton 1766-1844 founder of modern atomic theory
Thomas Young 1773-1829 first to conduct a double-slit experiment with light
David Brewster 1781-1868 researcher of polarized light
William Buckland 1784-1856 geologist of the Noahic flood
Adem Sedgwick 1785-1873 geologist of the Cambrian
Augustin-Jean Fresnel 1788-1827 the physicist of light waves
Augustin Louis Cauchy 1789-1857 soulwinning mathematician
Michael Faraday 1791-1867 giant of electrical research
John Frederick William Herschel 1792-1871 cataloger of the Southern skies
Matthew Fontaine Maury 1806-1873 pathfinder of the seas
Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888 popular naturalist
Asa Gray 1810-1888 influential botanist
James Dwight Dana 1813-1895 systematizer of minerology
George Boole 1815-1864 discoverer of pure mathematics
James Prescott Joule 1818-1889 originator of Joule's Law
John Couch Adams 1819-1892 codiscoverer of Neptune
George Gabriel Stokes 1819-1903 theorist of fluorescence
Gregor Mendel 1822-1884 pioneer in genetics
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin 1824-1907 physicist of thermodynammics
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann 1829-1907 the non-Euclidean geometer behind relativity theory
James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 father of modern physics
Edward William Morley 1838-1923 Michelson's partner in measuring the speed of light
Pierre-Maurice-Marie Duhem 1861-1923 the physicist who recovered the science of the Middle Ages
Georges Lemaitre 1894-1966 the prist who showed us the universe is expanding
George Washington Carver c. 1864-1943 pioneer in chemurgy
Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882-1944 the astronomer who ruled stellar theory




Some of the Most Influential, Most Famous Scientist who were Christians

Scientists listed in both Scientists of Faith (Christians) and also in one of the general books above (The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present, etc.) These individuals could be considered among history's most influential and famous scientists, who also happen to have been devout Christians of various denominations:

Roger Bacon
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Baptista van Helmont
Blaise Pascal
Robert Boyle
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Carolus Linnaeus
Leonhard Euler
John Dalton
Michael Faraday
John Frederick William Herschel
Matthew Fontaine Maury
James Prescott Joule
Gregor Mendel
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
James Clerk Maxwell
George Washington Carver
Arthur Stanley Eddington

[Note that many of the scientists from the books listed above were ALSO Christians, but were simply not listed in Dan Graves' brief book.]


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