"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, physics, psychology, visual perception, and science in general with his pioneering development of the scientific method. Wikipedia
Alhazen (965-1040?), Arab scientist and natural philosopher, who made important contributions in optics, astronomy, and mathematics. His Arab name is... encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579452/Alhazen.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Ibn Al-Haytham. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haitham
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Ibn Al-Haytham. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham
Indeed, the Year marks not only the centenary of Einstein's miraculous year but also the millennium of the founding of modern optics by physicist Ibn Haitham (Iraq, 965-1040). www.unesco.org/science/infocus_full_oct_05.shtml#1