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Muslim scientists made significant contributions to modern science. These include the development of the electroweak unification theory by Abdus Salam , development of femtochemistry by Ahmed Zewail , invention of quantum dots by Moungi Bawendi , and development of fuzzy set theory by Lotfi A. Zadeh .
Science and technology in the Islamic world adopted and preserved knowledge and technologies from contemporary and earlier civilizations, including Persia, Egypt, India, China, and Greco-Roman antiquity, while making numerous improvements, innovations and inventions.
Ali Al-Wardi, Iraqi Social Scientist specialized in the field of Social history. [citation needed] Adah Almutairi, Saudi chemist and inventor, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of California. [8] Ali H. Nayfeh, Palestinian-Jordanian-American mechanical engineer and the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award. [9]
The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...
A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, illustration from the Book of Games of Alfonso X (c. 1285). [1]During the High Middle Ages, the Islamic world was an important contributor to the global cultural scene, innovating and supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant.
History of Islamic Philosophy. Routledge. pp. 315, 1022– 1023. ISBN 0-415-13159-6. Russell, G. A. (1994). The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England. Brill Publishers. pp. 224– 262. ISBN 90-04-09459-8. Siddique, Md. Zakaria (2009). "Reviewing the Phenomenon of Death—A Scientific Effort from the ...
Lists of Muslim scientists and scholars cover scientists and scholars who were active in the Islamic world before the modern era. They include: List of scientists in medieval Islamic world; List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars; List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars; List of Muslim Nobel laureates
This article lists inventions and discoveries made by scientists with Pakistani nationality within Pakistan and outside the country, post the independence of Pakistan in 1947. Chemistry Development of the world's first workable plastic magnet at room temperature by organic chemist and polymer scientist Naveed Zaidi.