contribution of muslim scientists towards science
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Contribution of Muslim Scientists Towards Science
AL-KHWARIZMI
• Considered by some the inventor of algebra
• Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician working at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad in the ninth century
• He also wrote on mechanical devices like the Astrolabe and Sundial
• You can also thank him for the modern numeral system, which is based on Hindu-Arabic numbers derived from Indian mathematics
• He also contributed to astronomy, trigonometry and even geography
• Al-Khwarizmi accomplished most of his work in the period between 813 and 833
ALHAZEN
• Alhazen pioneered experimental physics and founded the modern scientific understanding of optics
• Alhazen made significant improvements in optics, physical science, and the scientific method
• Alhazen's work on optics is credited with contributing a new emphasis on experiment
• His main work, Kitabal-Manazir (Book of Optics) had little direct influence in the Islamic Middle East
• His work on catoptrics also contains the problem known as "Alhazen's problem”
• Risner is also the author of the name variant "Alhazen"
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi(936–1013)
• Also known in the West as Albucasis, was an Arab, Muslim, physician,and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus
• He is considered the greatest medieval surgeon to have appeared from the Islamic World
• He devoted his entire life and genius to the advancement of medicine as a whole and surgery in particular
• His best work was the Kitab al-Tasrif
• In pharmacy and pharmacology, Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi pioneered the preparation of medicines by sublimation and distillation
• Abu al-Qasim also described the use of forceps in vaginal deliveries. He introduced over 200 surgical instruments
Al-Jazari(1136–1206)
• He was a Muslim polymath, a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, and mathematician from Jazirat ibn Umar
• Al-Jazari laid out construction plans in A.D. 1206 for some 50 mechanical devices
• He was the first engineer to introduce the crankshaft, camshaft, locks with four bolts
• He also segmental gears for communicating motion between pieces, much of which he employed in ingenious water-raising machines
• He also used water to drive automata like moving peacocks, a serving girl who poured drinks and even a band in a boat in northern Mesopotamia
Abdus Salam
• He became the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize and also the second Muslim to win the prize
• Salam was a science advisor to the Government of Pakistan from 1960 to 1974
• As Science Advisor, Salam played an integral role in Pakistan's development of peaceful use of nuclear energy
• Salam's major and notable achievements include the Pati–Salam model, magnetic photon, vector meson, Grand Unified Theory
• Salam heavily contributed to the rise of Pakistani physics to the Physics community in the world
• Even until his death, Salam continued to contribute to physics and tirelessly advocated for the development of science in Third-World countries