1 |
Isaac Newton |
the Newtonian Revolution |
Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, Athanasianism) |
2 |
Albert Einstein |
Twentieth-Century Science |
Jewish |
3 |
Neils Bohr |
the Atom |
Jewish Lutheran |
4 |
Charles Darwin |
Evolution |
Anglican (nominal); Unitarian |
5 |
Louis Pasteur |
the Germ Theory of Disease |
Catholic |
6 |
Sigmund Freud |
Psychology of the Unconscious |
Jewish; Atheist; Freudian psychoanalysis (Freudianism) |
7 |
Galileo Galilei |
the New Science |
Catholic |
8 |
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier |
the Revolution in Chemistry |
Catholic |
9 |
Johannes Kepler |
Motion of the Planets |
Lutheran |
10 |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
the Heliocentric Universe |
Catholic (priest) |
11 |
Michael Faraday |
the Classical Field Theory |
Sandemanian |
12 |
James Clerk Maxwell |
the Electromagnetic Field |
Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist |
13 |
Claude Bernard |
the Founding of Modern Physiology |
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14 |
Franz Boas |
Modern Anthropology |
Jewish |
15 |
Werner Heisenberg |
Quantum Theory |
Lutheran |
16 |
Linus Pauling |
Twentieth-Century Chemistry |
Lutheran |
17 |
Rudolf Virchow |
the Cell Doctrine |
|
18 |
Erwin Schrodinger |
Wave Mechanics |
Catholic |
19 |
Ernest Rutherford |
the Structure of the Atom |
|
20 |
Paul Dirac |
Quantum Electrodynamics |
|
21 |
Andreas Vesalius |
the New Anatomy |
Catholic |
22 |
Tycho Brahe |
the New Astronomy |
Lutheran |
23 |
Comte de Buffon |
l’Histoire Naturelle |
|
24 |
Ludwig Boltzmann |
Thermodynamics |
|
25 |
Max Planck |
the Quanta |
Protestant |
26 |
Marie Curie |
Radioactivity |
Catholic (lapsed) |
27 |
William Herschel |
the Discovery of the Heavens |
Jewish |
28 |
Charles Lyell |
Modern Geology |
|
29 |
Pierre Simon de Laplace |
Newtonian Mechanics |
atheist |
30 |
Edwin Hubble |
the Modern Telescope |
|
31 |
Joseph J. Thomson |
the Discovery of the Electron |
|
32 |
Max Born |
Quantum Mechanics |
Jewish Lutheran |
33 |
Francis Crick |
Molecular Biology |
atheist |
34 |
Enrico Fermi |
Atomic Physics |
Catholic |
35 |
Leonard Euler |
Eighteenth-Century Mathematics |
Calvinist |
36 |
Justus Liebig |
Nineteenth-Century Chemistry |
|
37 |
Arthur Eddington |
Modern Astronomy |
Quaker |
38 |
William Harvey |
Circulation of the Blood |
Anglican (nominal) |
39 |
Marcello Malpighi |
Microscopic Anatomy |
Catholic |
40 |
Christiaan Huygens |
the Wave Theory of Light |
Calvinist |
41 |
Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss) |
Mathematical Genius |
Lutheran |
42 |
Albrecht von Haller |
Eighteenth-Century Medicine |
|
43 |
August Kekule |
Chemical Structure |
|
44 |
Robert Koch |
Bacteriology |
|
45 |
Murray Gell-Mann |
the Eightfold Way |
Jewish |
46 |
Emil Fischer |
Organic Chemistry |
|
47 |
Dmitri Mendeleev |
the Periodic Table of Elements |
|
48 |
Sheldon Glashow |
the Discovery of Charm |
Jewish |
49 |
James Watson |
the Structure of DNA |
atheist |
50 |
John Bardeen |
Superconductivity |
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