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The following list shows continuity of religious scientists from the 1400's to the present:
- Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543, a Prussian (Polish) mathematician, astronomer, jurist, physician, classical scholar, governor, administrator, military leader, diplomat, and economist was also a Catholic cleric when he formulated the modern heliocentric theory of the Solar System.3.94
- Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher was a devout Roman Catholic.3.95
- Isaac Newton, 1643-1727, an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist who wrote a number of religious tracts dealing with the literal interpretation of the Bible.3.96
- Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783, a Swiss mathematician and physicist who made important discoveries in calculus, topology, mechanics, optics, and astronomy was a stanch Christian and a biblical literalist, commemorated by the Lutheran Church on their Calendar of Saints.3.97
- Michael Faraday, 1791-1867, an English chemist, physicist, and natural philosopher who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry, and who was a devout Christian and a member of the small Sandemanian denomination, an offshoot of the Church of Scotland.3.98
- Gregor Mendel, 1822-1884, The Augustinian priest known as the father of genetics.3.99
- Max Born, 1882-1970, a German mathematician and physicist who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his statistical interpretation of the wave function in quantum mechanics was Lutheran, although he was classified as Jewish by the Nazi racial laws.3.100
- William C. DeVries, 1943-Present, an American cardiothoracic surgeon who performed the first successful permanent artificial heart implantation on Barney Clark using the Jarvik-7 model, is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.3.101
The scientists were not perfect, and some of them were persecuted and threatened by close-minded members of their churches and others for their discoveries or accomplishments.
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