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-Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the "Father of Modern Chemistry", discovered and termed Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur, helped make the Metric System, put together the first list of elements (the periodic table is based on this). He was the first to discover that matter retains mass regardless of shape. Lavoisier was a devout Roman Catholic.
-Jean-Baptiste Dumas as a devout Catholic who frequently defended his views against critics. He was responsible for the discovery of atomic weight and molecular weight, as well as being the first to measure both.
-Almost all of modern understanding of electricity is based off the findings of Catholics, this includes:
-Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, father of Coulomb's law. The unit of measure "Coulomb" (one amp per second) is named after him.
-Alessandro Volta, who invented the electric cell (the first modern battery). He discovered methane, the volt (named after him), voltage, and designed the voltmeter.
-Michael Faraday, the "father of electricity", can be said to have done more for research and study of electricity than any other one person in history. He studied electric fields, magnetic fields, electromagnetism, and more. He was highly religious, and a member of the Sandemanian Church, which required total faith and commitment.
-Albertus Magnus, the patron saint of natural sciences. He worked on physics, logic, metaphysics, biology, mineralogy, astrology, chemistry, zoology, physiology, botany, geography, and psychology. He was a friar and a bishop, and he wrote treatises on the peaceful coexistence of religion and science. He is widely considered to the the "most famous precursor of modern science" of the High Middle Ages. He is also the father of scholasticism. |
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