lay catholic scientists - part 1
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A short presentation about the life and works of several lay Catholic Scientists for use by schools, colleges, universities and church groups.TRANSCRIPT
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Catholic ScientistsA Collection of Lay Catholic Scientists
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George Agricola
1494 - 1555Father of minerologyStudied medicine, physics, chemistry but practiced medicineWrote on extensively on geology, mining and smeltingDefended the faith against Protestantism
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Gabriello Fallopio
1523 - 1562Anatomist and physicianStudied the anatomy of the head, ears and sinusesDescribed the tube leading from ovary to uterus - the Fallopian tubePublished papers on ulcers, uses of baths and thermal waters, the composition of drugs, and on wounds of the head
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Hieronymus Fabricius
1537 - 1619Anatomist and surgeonFather of embryologyInvestigated development of chicken embryosProduced beautiful illustrations on anatomyCredited with discovery of network of valves in veins
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Louis Pasteur1822 - 1895Founder of physio-chemistry and father of bacteriologyCreated first vaccine for rabbies and reduced mortality from puerperal fever Discivered molecular basis for asymmetry in certain crystalsInventor of bio-therapeutics and process now called PasteurisationHis faith was as genuine as his science
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Jean Baptiste Dumas
1800 - 1884Pharmacist and ChemistProfessor at the Sorbonne & dean of faculty of sciencesBecame a politician in 1849 and senator in 1851Dumas defended the faith from materialism
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Augustine-Jean Fresnel
1788 - 1827PhysicistStudied theoretical and experimental behaviour of lightInventor of the Fresnel Lens first used in LighthousesName attributed to light related equations, instruments and phenomena
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Sir Alexander Flemming
1881 - 1955Discovered PencillinKnighted in 1944Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945Huntarian Professorship by Royal College of SurgeonsEst. 200 million lives saved by Pencillin
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John A. O’Keefe
1916 - 2000Developed theory of tektites - natural glass objects found on EarthCo-discoverer of YORP effect - how sunlight affects the spin of meteors and asteroidsMajor leader of American lunar science programme Planetary scientist & Geodesist with NASA
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Stephen M. Barr
Professor of Physics and Delaware UniversityElementary Particle TheorySupersymmetric Grand Unified TheoriesCosmologyWrites on faith and science
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Michael Behe
Professor of Biology at Lehigh UniversityEmphasises ‘irreducible complexity’ over Darwinian evolutionWritten ‘Darwin’s Back Box’ and ‘The Edge of Evolution’
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John Davison
Retired Professor of Zoology at the University of VermontAuthor of “An evolutionary manifesto”Investigating natural avenue for single-generation species changeA recent convert to Catholicism!
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Bernard d’Espagnat
French physicist, author and philosopher of scienceProfessor Emeritus in theological physics at Paris-Sud UniversityDeveloped quantum mechanics and contributed to quantum information scienceConducted experiments into ‘Bell’s inequalities’ theorem2009 Templeton Prize winner
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You - maybe?Over 1000 years of Catholic ScienceOver 200 ‘noted’ Catholic ScientistsThe Catholic Church is credited with the birth of science during the 11th CenturyProof that it is possible to be a Scientist and be Catholic!
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