A short presentation about the life and works of several lay Catholic Scientists for use by schools, colleges, universities and church groups.

1. Catholic Scientists
A Collection of Lay Catholic Scientists
- Part 1 -
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2. George
Agricola
1494 - 1555
Father of minerology
Studied medicine, physics,
chemistry but practiced
medicine
Wrote on extensively on
geology, mining and smelting
Defended the faith against
Protestantism
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3. Gabriello Fallopio
1523 - 1562
Anatomist and physician
Studied the anatomy of the
head, ears and sinuses
Described the tube leading
from ovary to uterus - the
Fallopian tube
Published papers on ulcers, uses
of baths and thermal waters,
the composition of drugs, and
on wounds of the head
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4. Hieronymus Fabricius
1537 - 1619
Anatomist and surgeon
Father of embryology
Investigated development
of chicken embryos
Produced beautiful
illustrations on anatomy
Credited with discovery of
network of valves in veins
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5. Louis Pasteur
1822 - 1895
Founder of physio-chemistry and
father of bacteriology
Created first vaccine for rabbies
and reduced mortality from
puerperal fever
Discivered molecular basis for
asymmetry in certain crystals
Inventor of bio-therapeutics and
process now called Pasteurisation
His faith was as genuine as his
science
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6. Jean Baptiste Dumas
1800 - 1884
Pharmacist and Chemist
Professor at the Sorbonne
& dean of faculty of
sciences
Became a politician in
1849 and senator in 1851
Dumas defended the faith
from materialism
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7. Augustine-Jean
Fresnel
1788 - 1827
Physicist
Studied theoretical and
experimental behaviour of light
Inventor of the Fresnel Lens
first used in Lighthouses
Name attributed to light
related equations, instruments
and phenomena
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8. Sir Alexander
Flemming
1881 - 1955
Discovered Pencillin
Knighted in 1944
Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine in 1945
Huntarian Professorship by
Royal College of Surgeons
Est. 200 million lives
saved by Pencillin
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9. John A. O’Keefe
1916 - 2000
Developed theory of tektites -
natural glass objects found on
Earth
Co-discoverer of YORP effect
- how sunlight affects the spin
of meteors and asteroids
Major leader of American
lunar science programme
Planetary scientist & Geodesist
with NASA
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10. Stephen M. Barr
Professor of Physics and
Delaware University
Elementary Particle
Theory
Supersymmetric Grand
Unified Theories
Cosmology
Writes on faith and science
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11. Michael Behe
Professor of Biology at
Lehigh University
Emphasises ‘irreducible
complexity’ over
Darwinian evolution
W ritten ‘Darwin’s Back
Box’ and ‘The Edge of
Evolution’
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12. John Davison
Retired Professor of Zoology
at the University of V ermont
Author of “An evolutionary
manifesto”
Investigating natural avenue
for single-generation species
change
A recent convert to
Catholicism!
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13. Bernard d’Espagnat
French physicist, author and
philosopher of science
Professor Emeritus in
theological physics at Paris-Sud
University
Developed quantum mechanics
and contributed to quantum
information science
Conducted experiments into
‘Bell’s inequalities’ theorem
2009 T empleton Prize winner
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14. You - maybe?
Over 1000 years of
Catholic Science
Over 200 ‘noted’ Catholic
Scientists
The Catholic Church is
credited with the birth of
science during the 11th
Century
Proof that it is possible to be
a Scientist and be Catholic!
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