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Disciplines in Natural Sciences
Physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and the sciences of the earth and brain.
Era
6 figures
Ibn al-Haytham
965 – 1040Founded optics and the experimental method in the Book of Optics.
Iraq·Physics · Mathematics
C. V. Raman
1888 – 1970Raman scattering, now the basis of a ubiquitous laboratory spectroscopy.
India·PhysicsNobel
Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 – 1974Bose–Einstein statistics; the boson is named after him.
India·Physics
Hideki Yukawa
1907 – 1981Predicted the meson and the nuclear strong force.
Japan·PhysicsNobel
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 – 1995Worked out at nineteen why some stars must collapse into black holes.
India·Astronomy · Physics · MathematicsNobelFull profile
Abdus Salam
1926 – 1996Unified the electromagnetic and weak forces; first Muslim science laureate.
Pakistan·PhysicsNobel