Alhazen also nammed Ibn al-Haytham
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Alhazen, the scientist who hides to save his skin

Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham, named Alhazen, is a mathematician, physicist and philosopher born in Basra, in ancient Iraq. He is the first physicist to understand why the moon and the sun appear larger when they are close to the horizon. […]

Peter Piot doscovered ebola virus as well as other things
Belgian inventors

Peter Piot and the discovery of the Ebola virus

Peter Piot, also called Baron Peter Piot, is a Belgian microbiologist, born in Leuven in 1949.

He grew up in a rural village in Flemish Brabant, and very early on he was interested in science and disease. It’s no surprise that he first studied science and then medicine at the University of Ghent. […]

Mary Anning the first woman paleontologist
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Mary Anning

Mary Anning, the first Paleontologist woman. She discovered many fossils of Ichthyosaurs and Pterodactylus Macronyx. […]