List of Muslim scientists
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Islamic science has been an important part of the history of science and the present day. This is an incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists.
Astronomy
- Al-Khwarizmi, also a mathematician.
- Ulugh Beg, also a mathematician.
Chemistry
- Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Prize, 1999
- [[Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan]], (Geber)
- Rashad Khalifa, biochemist
- Abdulrahim Nasr Chafi, Dr. Chafi is a Chemist and Civil/Environmental Engineer
Geography
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer
Mathematicians
- al-Samawal
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Jamshid al-Kashi
- Abu Kamil
- Abu Sahl al-Kuhi
- Abu Bakr al-Karaji
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Ahmad ibn Yusuf
- Al-Jawhari
- Al-Kindi
- Alhazen
- Biruni
- Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer.
- Nasir al-Din Tusi, 13th Century Persian mathematician and philosopher
Medicine
- Abul Hasan al-Tabari - physican
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physican
- Abu Al-Qasim
- Avicenna, (Ibn Sina) also a philosopher
- Saghir Akhtar pharmacist
- Rhazes (Al Razi), also a chemist
Physics
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi, 9th Century Arab mathematician
- Averroes, 12th Century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medicine expert
- Al-Jazari, 13th Century civil engineer
- Mahmoud Hessaby, 20th Century Iranian physicist
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 20th Century Indonesian aerospace engineer and president
- Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize, 1979, Pakistani physicist (note: member of the Ahmadiyya community, regarded as non-Muslim by mainstream Muslims)
See also
- List of Muslim scholars
- List of people by belief
- List of Muslims
- Islamic astronomy
- Islamic mathematics
- Islamic medicine
- Timeline of Islamic science and technology
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