Contribution of muslim scientists towards science

Contribution of Muslim Scientists Towards Science

AL-KHWARIZMI

• Considered by some the inventor of algebra

• Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician working at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad in the ninth century

• He also wrote on mechanical devices like the Astrolabe and Sundial

• You can also thank him for the modern numeral system, which is based on Hindu-Arabic numbers derived from Indian mathematics

• He also contributed to astronomy, trigonometry and even geography

• Al-Khwarizmi accomplished most of his work in the period between 813 and 833

ALHAZEN

• Alhazen pioneered experimental physics and founded the modern scientific understanding of optics

• Alhazen made significant improvements in optics, physical science, and the scientific method

• Alhazen's work on optics is credited with contributing a new emphasis on experiment

• His main work, Kitabal-Manazir (Book of Optics) had little direct influence in the Islamic Middle East

• His work on catoptrics also contains the problem known as "Alhazen's problem”

• Risner is also the author of the name variant "Alhazen"

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi(936–1013)

• Also known in the West as Albucasis, was an Arab, Muslim, physician,and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus

• He is considered the greatest medieval surgeon to have appeared from the Islamic World

• He devoted his entire life and genius to the advancement of medicine as a whole and surgery in particular

• His best work was the Kitab al-Tasrif

• In pharmacy and pharmacology, Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi pioneered the preparation of medicines by sublimation and distillation

• Abu al-Qasim also described the use of forceps in vaginal deliveries. He introduced over 200 surgical instruments

Al-Jazari(1136–1206)

• He was a Muslim polymath, a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, and mathematician from Jazirat ibn Umar

• Al-Jazari laid out construction plans in A.D. 1206 for some 50 mechanical devices

• He was the first engineer to introduce the crankshaft, camshaft, locks with four bolts

• He also segmental gears for communicating motion between pieces, much of which he employed in ingenious water-raising machines

• He also used water to drive automata like moving peacocks, a serving girl who poured drinks and even a band in a boat in northern Mesopotamia

Abdus Salam

• He became the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize and also the second Muslim to win the prize

• Salam was a science advisor to the Government of Pakistan from 1960 to 1974

• As Science Advisor, Salam played an integral role in Pakistan's development of peaceful use of nuclear energy

• Salam's major and notable achievements include the Pati–Salam model, magnetic photon, vector meson, Grand Unified Theory

• Salam heavily contributed to the rise of Pakistani physics to the Physics community in the world

• Even until his death, Salam continued to contribute to physics and tirelessly advocated for the development of science in Third-World countries