Memes of the Day

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 25 (And Last)

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 24

Fr Georges Lemaître, RAS Associate (French: [ʒɔʁʒᵊ ləmɛ:tʁᵊ]; 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Priest, astronomer, and professor of physics atat the Catholic University of Leuven.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 22

Fr Angelo Secchi SJ (Italian pronunciation: [ˈˈandʒelo ˈsekki]; 28 June 1818 – 26 February 1878) was an Italian astronomer. He was Director of the Observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 21

Pierre André Latreille (29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Priest before the French Revolution, Latreille refused to take the oath required by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, was imprisoned under threat of death, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare beetle species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 20

Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J. (Croatian: Ruđer Josip Bošković; pronounced [rûd͡ʑer jǒsip bôʃkoʋit͡ɕ]; Italian: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich; Latin: Rodericus Iosephus Boscovicus; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the city of Dubrovnik (modern-day Croatia), who studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 19

Nicolas Steno (Danish: Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolaus Stenonis or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 [NS: 11 January 1638 – 5 December 1686]) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 18

Christoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) – 18 June 1650) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 17

Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 16

Roger Bacon OFM (Latin: Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Frater Rogerus; c. 1219/20 – c. 1292), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 15

Albertus Magnus, O.P. (c. 1193 – November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a German Catholic Dominican friar and bishop. Later canonised as a Catholic saint, he was known during his lifetime as Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus and, late in his life, the sobriquet Magnus was appended to his name.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 14

Robert Grosseteste (Latin: Robertus Grosseteste; c. 1175 – 9 October 1253) was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. 

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 13

Today, we begin great Catholic scientists who were Religious, Priests or Brothers.

Hermann of Reichenau (July 18, 1013 – September 24, 1054), also called Hermannus Contractus or Hermannus Augiensis or Herman the Cripple, was an 11th-century scholar, composer, music theorist, mathematician, and astronomer. He composed the Marian prayer Alma Redemptoris Mater.^[1][2] He was beatified (cultus confirmed) in 1863.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 12

Bernard d'Espagnat (22 August 1921 – 1 August 2015) was a French theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality.

Great Catholic Scientist, Number 11

John A. Davison (1928-2012) was an American biologist most well known for his opposition to the neo-Darwinian synthesis.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 10

Michael J. Behe (born January 18, 1952) is an American biochemist, author, and advocate of the principle of intelligent design. He is married to Celeste Behe and the two have nine children who are homeschooled.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 9

Stephen M. Barr (born 1953) is an American author and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware and a member of its Bartol Research Institute. He is also President of the Society of Catholic Scientists.

Great Catholic Scientist, Number 8

John Aloysius O'Keefe III (1916–2000) was an expert in planetary science and astrogeology with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 1958 to 1995.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 7

Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS^[1] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist.

Great Catholic Scientists, Number 6

Augustin-Jean Fresnel  (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory,