List of Muslim Scientists - Physicists and Engineers

Physicists and Engineers

• Jafar al-Sadiq, 8th century
• Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa), 9th century
  • Ja'far Muhammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir
  • Ahmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir
  • Al-Hasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir
• Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman), 9th century
• Al-Saghani, 10th century
• Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi), 10th century
• Ibn Sahl, 10th century
• Ibn Yunus, 10th century
• Al-Karaji, 10th century
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), 11th century Iraqi scientist, father of optics, pioneer of scientific method and experimental physics, considered the "first scientist"
• Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, 11th century, pioneer of experimental mechanics
• Ibn Sīnā/Seena (Avicenna), 11th century
• Al-Khazini, 12th century
• Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), 12th century
• Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Nathanel), 12th century
• Ibn Rushd/Rooshd (Averroes), 12th century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medical expert
• Al-Jazari, 13th century civil engineer, father of robotics,
• Nasir al-Din Tusi, 13th century
• Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, 13th century
• Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, 13th century
• Ibn al-Shatir, 14th century
• Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, 16th century
• Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, 17th century
• Lagari Hasan Çelebi, 17th century
• Sake Dean Mahomet, 18th century
• Fazlur Khan, 20th century Bangladeshi mechanician
• Mahmoud Hessaby, 20th century Iranian physicist
• Ali Javan, 20th century Iranian physicist
• Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 20th century Indonesian aerospace engineer and president
• Abdul Kalam, Indian aeronautical engineer and nuclear scientist
• Mehran Kardar, Iranian theoretical physicist
• Cumrun Vafa, Iranian mathematical physicist
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-born Iranian physicist
• Munir Nayfeh Palestinian-American particle physicist
• Abdus Salam, Pakistani Theoretical Physicist, First Muslim scientist Nobel Laureate
• Riazuddin, Pakistani theoretical physicist
• Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist
• Abdus Salam, 1st Pakistani theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Ali Musharafa, Egyptian nuclear physicist
• Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear physicist
• Munir Ahmad Khan, Father of Pakistan's nuclear program
• Shahid Hussain Bokhari, Pakistani researcher in the field of parallel and distributed computing
• Kerim Kerimov, a founder of Soviet space program, a lead architect behind first human spaceflight (Vostok 1), and the lead architect of the first space stations (Salyut and Mir)
• Farouk El-Baz, a NASA scientist involved in the first Moon landings with the Apollo program