Contribution of muslim scientists towards science
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Muslim scientists and inventors made many important contributions to fields like algebra, astronomy, optics, medicine, and engineering. Al-Khwarizmi invented algebra and the modern numeral system. Alhazen pioneered experimental physics and optics, and introduced the scientific method. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi was a pioneering surgeon who introduced over 200 surgical instruments. Al-Jazari invented many early mechanical devices like segmental gears and water-raising machines powered by water wheels. Abdus Salam was the first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize for his work developing the electroweak theory and advocating for science in developing countries.
Contribution of muslim scientists towards science
- 1. Contribution of Muslim Scientists Towards Science
- 2. 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
- 3. • 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
- 4. ALHAZEN
- 5. • 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
- 6. • 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"
- 8. • 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
- 9. • 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
- 11. • 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
- 12. • 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
- 13. Abdus Salam
- 14. • 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
- 15. • 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