Legacy: Roman Catholic Scientists
Forty-four Roman Catholic scientists is a small sample. We could have chosen hundreds of others, but even this incomplete collection should suffice to indicate the commitment of the Catholic Church over the centuries to the importance of science – its method, its potential, its discoveries – for humankind. Click on a picture for further very brief details.
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- Albertus Magnus
- André-Marie Ampère
- Augustine of Hippo
- Roger Bacon
- Louis Braille
- Jan Brożek
- Francesco Fàa di Bruno
- Alexis Carrel
- Christopher Clavius, S.J.
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Marie Curie
- René Descartes
- Enrico Fermi
- Jean-Bertand-Léon Foucault
- Galileo Galilei
- Pope Gregory XIII
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B.
- Peter E. Hodgson
- Stanley Jaki, O.S.B.
- Pope John XXI
- Athanasius Kircher, S.J.
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Jérôme Lejeune
- Georges Lemaître
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Urbain Le Verrier
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Gregor Mendel, OSA
- Marin Mersenne
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Nicole Oreseme
- Joseph O’Dwyer
- Blaise Pascal
- Louis Pasteur
- Jules Henri Poincaré
- Michael Polanyi
- Matteo Ricci, S.J.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
- Thomas Aquinas
- Evangelista Torricelli
- William of Ockham
- John Zahm, C.S.C.