List of Christian scientists - Definition and Overview

This is a list of scientists who are Christians. For the religious denomination known as the Christian Scientists, see Church of Christ, Scientist.

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

Main article: List of Christians

• André-Marie Ampère (Catholic)
• Thomas Aquinas (Catholic)
• Roger Bacon (Catholic)
• Antoine Henri Becquerel (Catholic)
• 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)
• John Flamsteed
• Alexander Fleming (Catholic)
• 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)
• 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
• George Stokes
• Urbain Le Verrier (Catholic)
• Wright brothers (Brethren)

Also see Templeton Prize