Scientists
- Anthemius of Tralles, an architect who designed the Hagia Sophia.
- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, mathematician.
- Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909–1992), theoretical physicist and mathematician.
- Theodosius Dobzhansky – Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution concerns the religious reader.
- Pavel Florensky – Worked on Dielectrics and theodicy.
- Alexander Friedmann – Discovered the expanding universe solution to the Einstein field equations.
- Sergei Korolev – Designed the R-7 rocket which launched the Space Age on October 4, 1957.
- Dmitri Mendeleev – Noted chemist.
- Josif Pančić (convert)
- Ivan Pavlov – His father was a Russian Orthodox priest and Ivan Pavlov was enrolled in the seminary before reading The Origin of Species .
- John Philoponus – "Christian philosopher, scientist, and theologian" .
- Alexander Popov – Inventor of radio. Son of a priest; planned to study in the seminary.
- Michael I. Pupin – Famous physicist.
- Nikola Tesla – Serbian scientist, inventor of AC and radio. He was Serbian Orthodox as a child in least since his father was a priest.
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Famous quotes containing the word scientists:
“Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)
“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can’t tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)