• Question: Who is your favourite Muslim scientist? Some examples are Ibn Sina, the creator of Medicine who is my favourite

    Asked by umera to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Abdus Salam.

      He was a famous physicist who contributed to the unification of the weak force and the electromagnetic force. An extremely gifted man.

    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      I’ll put my vote in for Eraqi Khannon, the Egyptian muslim working in my lab just now. He’s a great guy, and a very dedicated scientist.

    • Photo: Janet Daly

      Janet Daly answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      I guess for me it is Abu Bakr Zakariya al-Razi – he was the first person to describe the difference between the diseases caused by smallpox and measles viruses long before anyone knew about viruses…he was famous worldwide, mainly I think because he was systematic and made observations without guessing or making things up to fit his own ideas.

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