This is a list of scientists who are Christians. For the religious denomination known as the Christian Scientists, see Church of Christ, Scientist. What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. ... Note that this kind of denomination is not that of a coin or banknote. ... The Church of Christ, Scientist, often known as The Christian Science Church, is a Protestant Christian denomination, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879. ...

List of Christians primarily known for their contributions to the sciences:

Main article: List of Christians List of Christians: Many people define Christianity in mutually exclusive ways. ...

• André-Marie Ampère (Catholic)
• Thomas Aquinas (Catholic)
• Roger Bacon (Catholic)
• Antoine Henri Becquerel (Catholic)
• János Bolyai (Calvinist)
• David Brewster
• Georges Buffon (Catholic)
• Georg Cantor
• Augustin-Louis Cauchy (Catholic)
• George Washington Carver
• Nicolaus Copernicus (Catholic Priest)
• Charles Augustin de Coulomb (Catholic)
• John Dalton (Quaker)
• René Descartes (Catholic)
• Freeman Dyson
• Sir Arthur Eddington
• Leonhard Euler (Calvinist)
• Michael Faraday (Sandemanian)
• Pierre de Fermat (Catholic)
• John Flamsteed
• Alexander Fleming (Catholic)
• Gottlob Frege (Calvinist)
• Augustin Jean Fresnel
• Galileo Galilei (Catholic)
• Luigi Galvani (Catholic)
• Josiah Gibbs
• John Herschel
• William Herschel
• Edward Jenner
• James Joule
• Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
• Johannes Kepler (Lutheran)
• Donald Knuth
• Antoine Lavoisier (Catholic)
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek (Dutch Reformed)
• Gottfried Leibniz (Lutheran)
• Georges Lemaitre (Catholic)
• Carl Linnaeus
• Joseph Lister (Quaker)
• Guglielmo Marconi (born Catholic, converted to Anglicanism)
• James Clerk Maxwell (born Presbyterian, converted to Baptist faith)
• Gregor Mendel (Catholic Abbot)
• Edward Morley
• Samuel Morse
• Isaac Newton (born Anglican, converted to Arianism)
• Nicholas Oresme (Catholic)
• Blaise Pascal
• Louis Pasteur (Catholic)
• Bernhard Riemann
• Erwin Schrödinger (Catholic)
• George Stokes
• Urbain Le Verrier (Catholic)
• Wright brothers (Brethren)

Also see Templeton Prize André-Marie Ampère (January 20, 1775 – June 10, 1836), was a French physicist who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. ... St Thomas Aquinas. ... Statue of Roger Bacon in the Oxford University Museum Roger Bacon (1214 – 1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis (Latin: astounding doctor), was one the most famous Franciscan friars of this time. ... Henri Becquerel Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 – August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. ... János Bolyai (December 15, 1802–January 27, 1860) was a Hungarian mathematician. ... In an unadorned church, the 17th century congregation stands to hear the sermon. ... David Brewster Sir David Brewster, (December 11, 1781 – February 10, 1868) was a Scottish scientist. ... Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 - April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. ... Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3, 1845 – January 6, 1918) was a mathematician who was born in Russia and lived in Germany for most of his life. ... Augustin Louis Cauchy Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23, 1857) was a French mathematician. ... George Washington Carver, 1906 George Washington Carver (c. ... Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (in Latin; Polish Mikołaj Kopernik, German Nikolaus Kopernikus); February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and economist who developed the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system in a form detailed enough to make it scientifically useful. ... Portrait of Coulomb Charles Augustin Coulomb (June 14, 1736—August 23, 1806) was a French physicist. ... John Dalton (September 6, 1766–July 27, 1844) was a British chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... René Descartes René Descartes (IPA: , March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Cartesius, worked as a philosopher and mathematician. ... Freeman Dyson at Harvard University in 2004 Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. ... One of Sir Arthur Stanley Eddingtons papers announced Einsteins theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. ... Leonhard Euler aged 49 (oil painting by Emanuel Handmann, 1756) Leonhard Euler [oilər] (April 15, 1707 - September 18, 1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. ... In an unadorned church, the 17th century congregation stands to hear the sermon. ... Michael Faraday Michael Faraday (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was a British scientist (a physicist and chemist) who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. ... Glasites, or Sandemanians, were a Christian sect, founded in Scotland by John Glas. ... Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat (August 17, 1601 – January 12, 1665) was a French lawyer of Basque origin at the Parliament of Toulouse and a mathematician who is given credit for the development of modern calculus. ... John Flamsteed. ... Alexander Fleming Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955) discovered the antibiotic substance lysozyme and isolated the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum. ... Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (November 8, 1848 – July 26, 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is regarded as a founder of both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. ... In an unadorned church, the 17th century congregation stands to hear the sermon. ... Augustin Fresnel Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced fray-NELL) (May 10, 1788 – July 14, French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the wave theory of light and optics. ... Galileo Galilei (Pisa, February 15, 1564 – Arcetri, January 8, 1642), was a Tuscan astronomer, philosopher, and physicist who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. ... Luigi Galvani Luigi Galvani (September 9, 1737–December 4, 1798) was an Italian physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna. ... Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American physical chemist. ... John Herschel John Frederick William Herschel (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English mathematician and astronomer. ... Sir Wilhelm Friedrich Herschel (Hanover, November 15, 1738 – August 25, 1822 Slough, then in Buckinghamshire now in Berkshire) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering the planet Uranus, and made many other astronomical discoveries. ... Edward Jenner Sculpture of Edward Jenner on the grounds of the Tokyo National Museum Edward Jenner (May 17, 1749 - January 26, 1823) was an English country doctor practicing in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, famous for his work introducing the Smallpox vaccine. ... James Prescott Joule (December 24, 1818–October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Salford, near Manchester. ... William Thomson, Archbishop of York, has the same name as this man. ... Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German astronomer, mathematician and astrologer. ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. ... Portrait of Monsier Lavoisier and his Wife, by Jacques-Louis David Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 – May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry, finance, biology, and economics. ... Anton van Leeuwenhoek Anton van Leeuwenhoek (October 24, 1632 - August 26, 1723) was a tradesman and scientist from Delft, in the Netherlands. ... The Dutch Reformed Church or Netherlands Reformed Church (in Dutch: Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk (NHK)) is a denomination of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin. ... Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (also Leibnitz) (Leipzig July 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716 in Hannover) was a German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat, librarian, and lawyer of Sorb descent. ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... Georges-Henri Lemaître (July 17, 1894 – June 20, 1966) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and astronomer. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (April 5, 1827-February 10, 1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Infirmary. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system commonly known as the radio. Marconi was President of the Accademia dItalia and a member of the Fascist Grand Council of Italy. ... The term Anglican (from the Angles or English) describes those people and churches following the religious traditions developed by the established Church of England. ... James Clerk Maxwell(June 13, 1831–November 5, 1879) was a Scottish physicist, born in Edinburgh. ... Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... Baptist churches are part of a Christian movement often regarded as an Evangelical, Protestant denomination. ... Gregor Johann Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel (July 22, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was a Czech-Austrian monk who is often called the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. ... Abbots coat of arms An abbot (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Latin abbas (genitive form, abbatis), Old English abbad, ; German Abt; French abbé) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumenos or The English version... Edward Williams Morley (January 29, 1838 - February 24, 1923) was an American scientist. ... Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse by Mathew Brady, between 1855 and 1865 Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor, and painter of portraits and historic scenes; he is most famous for inventing the electric telegraph and Morse code. ... Sir Isaac Newton in Knellers 1689 portrait Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 by the Julian calendar in use in England at the time; or 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 by the Gregorian calendar) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and alchemist who wrote... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... Arianism was a Christological view held by followers of Arius in the early Christian Church, claiming that Jesus Christ and God the Father were not always contemporary, seeing the Son as a divine being, created by the Father (and consequently inferior to Him) at some point in time, before which... Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. ... Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist. ... Bernhard Riemann. ... Erwin Schrödinger, as depicted on the former Austrian 1000 Schilling bank note. ... Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (August 13, 1819 – February 1, 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist. ... Urbain Le Verrier. ... First flight, December 17, 1903. ... The Brethren are any of several Christian denominations, most of which are Anabaptist-Pietist . ... The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities (795,000 Pounds Sterling in 2003) was until 2001 . ...