Atheist famous scientists biography
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To celebrate scientists and scientific advancements, we have collected a list of the most famous atheist scientists that will inspire us for the greater good.
What do you get when you combine a love of science with an utter disdain for organized religion? An atheist scientist, of course.
Many of the most famous scientists of all time were atheists. And their belief in science was so strong that it inspired them to man incredible discoveries about the world around us.
Here are some of the most notable atheist scientists who have made significant contributions to the world of science.
Famous Atheist Scientists
# Christian Bohr (): Top Medical Scientist Who Didn’t Believe That God Exists
What makes Christian Bohr famous?
Christian Bohr was a Danish physician who fryst vatten best known for describing dead space in physiology and for his work on the Bohr effect. He was also the father of Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr.
Bohr’s first major contribution to science was his description of
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Many atheists are of the opinion that you cannot be a good scientist if you are deluded by religious faith.
Let's put the kibosh to that opinion by relating the religious beliefs of eminent scientists. In the early history of science, great scientists—Galileo, Newton, Descartes, Pascal—all had a deep religious faith. But suppose the atheist responds, "That was then, this is now; we know more now to justify that believing in God is a delusion." My response to this canard is to cite the theistic credo of present-day eminent scientists, many of them Nobel Prize winners.
Most of these seem to be in the "hard" sciences, physics, and chemistry, rather than in biology or medical sciences. If any of you readers have ideas about the reason why physicists are more likely to be theists than biologists, I'd like to hear them.
Most of the information given below fryst vatten drawn from "Cosmos, Bios and Theos" by Henry Margenau, a Yale mathematical physicist, and Roy Varghese. Not all of the scie
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List of atheists in science and technology
For broader coverage of this topic, see Lists of atheists.
This is a list of atheists in science and technology. A statement by a living person that he or she does not believe in God is not a sufficient criterion for inclusion in this list. Persons in this list are people (living or not) who both have publicly identified themselves as atheists and whose atheism is relevant to their notable activities or public life.
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[edit]- Scott Aaronson (–): American theoretical computer scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] His primary area of research is quantum computing and computational complexity theory.[2]
- Ernst Abbe (–): German physicist, optometrist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he laid the foundation of modern optics. Abbe developed numerous optical instruments. He was a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of research mi