Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

male, deceased (1642)
physics, scientific revolution, physicist, From Tuscany, Italian, Astronomer…RomanCatholicismandScience, Roman Catholic
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher closely associated with...
Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon

male, deceased (1294)
Christian Hebraist, scientific method, Scholastic philosopher, RomanCatholicismandScience, Alchemist, Franciscan
Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis, was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. An English philosopher who pl...
William Of Ockham

William Of Ockham

male, deceased (1349)
Renaissance Latin author, scholastic, Logician, Philosopher of language, Scholastic philosopher, logic…RomanCatholicismandScience, Roman Catholic, excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings,) (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher,...
Robert Grosseteste

Robert Grosseteste

male, deceased (1253)
Roman Catholic bishop, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, University of Oxford, suffolk, RomanCatholicismandScience, Franciscan…Roman Catholic
Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175 - October 9, 1253), English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian and bishop of Lincoln, was born of humble...
Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus

male, deceased (1280)
Astrologer, friar, Dominican friar, German music theorist, Roman Catholic, roman catholic church…catholicism, RomanCatholicismandScience, Roman Catholic bishop
Albertus Magnus (b. 1193/1206 - d. November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar who...
George Coyne

George Coyne

male, 76 years old
Member of ISSR, Irish-American, religious figure, George V. Coyne, S.J, Vatican Observatory, American…RomanCatholicismandScience
George V. Coyne, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, astronomer, and former director of the Vatican Observatory and head of the observatory’s research group wh...
Jean Buridan

Jean Buridan

male, deceased (1358)
Johannes Buridanus, Renaissance Latin author, impetus, Medieval philosopher, philosopher, priest…RomanCatholicismandScience
<br />Jean Buridan (in Latin, Johannes Buridanus; 1300 - 1358) was a French priest who sowed the seeds of the Copernican revolution in Europe....
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Catholic, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Muslim, Indian, Indian astronomy, Islamic astronomy…roman, roman catholic church, RomanCatholicismandScience
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...
Albert Of Saxony

Albert Of Saxony

male, deceased (1390)
Roman Catholic bishop, philosopher, Scholastic philosopher, logic, RomanCatholicismandScience, Medieval philosopher…Roman Catholic
Albert of Saxony (Latin "Albertus de Saxonia"; (c. 1316 – 8 July 1390) was a German philosopher known for his contributions to logic and physics. He...
Carlos Chagas Filho

Carlos Chagas Filho

male, deceased (2000)
Biophysicist, neuroscience, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Neuroscientist, RomanCatholicismandScience, scientist…Roman Curia
Carlos Chagas Filho was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his...