Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)   Experimental science; Physics
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)   Scientific method
Johann Kepler (1571-1630)   Scientific astronomy
William Petty (1623-1687)   Statistics; Scientific economics
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)   Hydrostatics; Barometer
Robert Boyle (1627-1691)   Chemistry; Gas dynamics
John Ray (1627-1691)   Natural history
Nicolas Steno (1631-1686)   Sratigraphy
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)   Dynamics; Calculus; Gravitation law; Reflecting telescope
William Derham (1657-1735)   Ecology
John Woodward (1665-1728)   Paleontology
Carolus Linneaus (1707-1778)   Taxonomy; Biological classification system
Richard Kirwan (1733-1812)   Mineralogy
William Herschel (1738-1822)   Galactic astronomy; Uranus
John Dalton (1766-1844)   Atomic theory; Gas law
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)   Comparative anatomy
Humphrey Davy (1778-1829)   Thermokinetics; Safety lamp
John Kidd, M.D. (1775-1851)   Chemical synthetics
David Brewster (1781-1868)   Optical mineralogy; Kaleidoscope
William Prout (1785-1850)   Food chemistry
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)   Electro magnetics; Field theory; Generator
Charles Babbage (1792-1871)   Operations research; Computer science; Opthalmoscope
Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872)   Telegraph
William Whewell (1794-1866)   Anemometer
Joseph Henry (1797-1878)   Electric motor; Galvanometer
Matthew Maury (1806-1873)   Oceanography; Hydrography
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)   Glaciology; Ichthyology
James Simpson (1811-1879)   Gynecology; Anesthesiology
James Joule (1818-1889)   Thermodynamics
George Stokes (1819-1903)   Fluid Mechanics
Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902)   Pathology
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)   Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Sterilization; Immunization
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)   Genetics
Henri Fabre (1823-1915)   Entomology of living insects
William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)   Energetics; Absolute temperatures; Atlantic cable
William Huggins (1824-1910)   Astral spectrometry
Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)   Non-Euclidean geometrics
Joseph Lister (1827-1912)   Antiseptic surgery
Balfour Stewart (1828-1887)   Ionospheric electricity
Joseph Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)   Electrodynamics; Statistical thermodynamics
John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919)   Similitude; Model Analysis; Inert Gases
P.G. Tait (1831-1901)   Similitude; Model Analysis; Inert Gases
John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945)   Electronics; Electron tube; Thermionic valve
William Ramsay (1852-1916)   Isotopic chemistry, Element transmutation

Kepler--Astronomy Simpson--Gynecology
Pascal--Hydrostatics Mendel--Genetics
Boyle--Chemistry Pasteur--Bacteriology
Newton--Physics Kelvin--Thermodynamics
Steno--Stratigraphy Lister--Antiseptic surgery
Faraday--Magnetic theory Maxwell--Electodynamics
Babbage--Computers Ramsay--Isotopic chemistry
Agassiz--Ichthyology

    Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) was one of the world’s top space scientists.  With a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, von Braun was a leading German rocket engineer, developing the famed V-2 rocket during World War II.  He migrated to the United States in 1945, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1955.  He directed U.S. guided missile development for several years and then became Director of NASA.
    Dr. von Braun was also a practicing Lutheran, active in church and Christian life.  In the foreword to an anthology on creation and design in nature, he gave this testimony:  “Manned space flight is an amazing achievement, but it has opened for mankind thus far only a tiny door for viewing the awesome reaches of space.  An outlook through this peephole at the vast mysteries of the universe should only confirm our belief in the certainty of its Creator.  I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.”