Gifts of Faith: Influence of Christian Faith in the world
"Albert Einstein | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
Max Planck | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Protestant |
Erwin Schrodinger | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Catholic |
Werner Heisenberg | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Lutheran |
Robert Millikan | Nobel Laureate in Physics | probably Congregationalist |
Charles Hard Townes | Nobel Laureate in Physics | United Church of Christ (raised Baptist) |
Arthur Schawlow | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Methodist |
William D. Phillips | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Methodist |
William H. Bragg | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Anglican |
Guglielmo Marconi | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Catholic and Anglican |
Arthur Compton | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Presbyterian |
Arno Penzias | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
Nevill Mott | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Anglican |
Isidor Isaac Rabi | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
Abdus Salam | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Muslim |
Antony Hewish | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Christian (denomination?) |
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Quaker |
Alexis Carrel | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
John Eccles | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
Joseph Murray | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
Ernst Chain | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Jewish |
George Wald | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Jewish |
Ronald Ross | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Christian (denomination?) |
Derek Barton | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Christian (denomination?) |
Christian Anfinsen | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Jewish |
Walter Kohn | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Jewish |
Richard Smalley | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Christian (denomination?) |
PART II. Nobel Writers (20-21 Century) | ||
T.S. Eliot | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglo-Catholic (Anglican) |
Rudyard Kipling | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglican |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Russian Orthodox |
François Mauriac | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Catholic |
Hermann Hesse | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Christian; Buddhist? |
Winston Churchill | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglican |
Jean-Paul Sartre | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Lutheran; Freudian; Marxist; atheist; Messianic Jew |
Sigrid Undset | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Catholic (previously Lutheran) |
Rabindranath Tagore | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Hindu |
Rudolf Eucken | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Christian (denomination?) |
Isaac Singer | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Jewish |
PART III. Nobel Peace Laureates (20-21 Century) | ||
Albert Schweitzer | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Lutheran |
Jimmy Carter | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Baptist (former Southern Baptist) |
Theodore Roosevelt | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Dutch Reformed; Episcopalian |
Woodrow Wilson | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Presbyterian |
Frederik de Klerk | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Dutch Reformed |
Nelson Mandela | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Christian (denomination?) |
Kim Dae-Jung | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Catholic |
Dag Hammarskjold | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Christian (denomination?) |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Baptist |
Adolfo Perez Esquivel | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Catholic |
Desmond Tutu | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Anglican |
John R. Mott | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Methodist |
Part IV. Founders of Modern Science (16-21 Century) | ||
Isaac Newton | Founder of Classical Physics and Infinitesimal Calculus | Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) |
Galileo Galilei | Founder of Experimental Physics | Catholic |
Nicolaus Copernicus | Founder of Heliocentric Cosmology | Catholic (priest) |
Johannes Kepler | Founder of Physical Astronomy and Modern Optics | Lutheran |
Francis Bacon | Founder of the Scientific Inductive Method | Anglican |
René Descartes | Founder of Analytical Geometry and Modern Philosophy | Catholic |
Blaise Pascal | Founder of Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and the Theory of Probabilities | Jansenist |
Michael Faraday | Founder of Electronics and Electro-Magnetics | Sandemanian |
James Clerk Maxwell | Founder of Statistical Thermodynamics | Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist |
Lord Kelvin | Founder of Thermodynamics and Energetics | Anglican |
Robert Boyle | Founder of Modern Chemistry | Anglican |
William Harvey | Founder of Modern Medicine | Anglican (nominal) |
John Ray | Founder of Modern Biology and Natural History | Calvinist (denomination?) |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | German Mathematician and Philosopher, Founder of Infinitesimal Calculus | Lutheran |
Charles Darwin | Founder of the Theory of Evolution | Anglican (nominal); Unitarian |
Ernst Haeckel | German Biologist, the Most Influential Evolutionist in Continental Europe | |
Thomas H. Huxley | English Biologist and Evolutionist, Famous As "Darwin's Bulldog" | |
Joseph J. Thomson | Nobel Laureate in Physics, Discoverer of the Electron, Founder of Atomic Physics | Anglican |
Louis Pasteur | Founder of Microbiology and Immunology | Catholic |
Part V. Great Philosophers (17-21 Century) | ||
Immanuel Kant | One of the Greatest Philosophers in the History of Western Philosophy | Lutheran |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Founder of Modern Deism | born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic |
Voltaire | French Philosopher and Historian, One of the Most Influential Thinkers of the Enlightenment | raised in Jansenism |
David Hume | Scottish Empiricist Philosopher, Historian, and Economist, Founder of Modern Skepticism | Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) |
Spinoza | Dutch-Jewish Philosopher, the Chief Exponent of Modern Rationalism | Judaism; later pantheism/deism |
Giordano Bruno | Italian Philosopher, Astronomer, and Mathematician, Founder of the Theory of the Infinite Universe | Catholic |
George Berkeley | Irish Philosopher and Mathematician, Founder of Modern Idealism, Famous as "The Precursor of Mach and Einstein" | Anglican |
John Stuart Mill | English Philosopher and Economist, the Major Exponent of Utilitarianism | agnostic; Utilitarian |
Richard Swinburne | Oxford Professor of Philosophy, One of the Most Influential Theistic Philosophers" Source: Google.com |
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