Faith and Science Who's Who

Founder of the Jesuits who had a religious experience at the river Cardoner in which he was able to see the world in a new way, with a new understanding.

• St. Anselm of Canterbury

• St. Ignatius of Loyola

• Albert Einstein

• Friedrich Miescher

.Medieval bishop and theologian who said theology is “faith seeking understanding.”

• St. John Paul II

• St. Ignatius of Loyola

• St. Anselm of Canterbury

• Albert Einstein

Physicist who introduced the scientific principle of complementarity

• Neils Bohr

• Gregor Mendel

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Francesco Grimaldi

Pope who wrote that faith and reason are “like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.”

• Albert Einstein

• St. John Paul II

• St. Ignatius of Loyola

• St. Anselm of Canterbury

Physicist who accurately predicted the existence of a subatomic particle based upon a sense of order and beauty

• Murray Gell-Mann

• Neils Bohr

• Francesco Grimaldi

• Gregor Mendel

Nineteenth-century pioneer in the field of cell biology

• Murray Gell-Mann

• Francesco Grimaldi

• Neils Bohr

• Friedrich Miescher

Augustinian monk who discovered the laws of genetics.

• Neils Bohr

• Gregor Mendel

• Murray Gell-Mann

• Francesco Grimaldi

Jesuit priest who discovered diffraction.

• Francesco Grimaldi

• Murray Gell-Mann

• Neils Bohr

• Gregor Mendel

English scientist who discovered the law of gravity.

• Gregor Mendel

• Neils Bohr

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Francesco Grimaldi

Twentieth-century scientist who demonstrated that light is a “wavelike particle” called a photon.

• St. John Paul II

• Albert Einstein

• St. Ignatius of Loyola

• St. Anselm of Canterbury