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    Can anyone name any famous scientists who were also clerics or church ministers as I am trying to identify a photograph of such a person dressed in a cleric outfit that looks 19th or 20th century, wearing round spectacles?

    Question #12784. Asked by terry. (Jul 09 01 5:38 PM)


    dendog

    		You could possibly be looking at Gregor Mendel, the famous geneticist, who was a monk. Many experiments in genetics on pea plants and the like. I believe he was Austrian, and lived around 18th or 19th century.

    Jul 09 01, 7:26 PM
    riverbird

    		Try Georges Lemaitre, astronomer and cosmologist, born July 17,1894 at Charleroi in Belgium.Became civil engineer, then artillery officer in Belgian Army during World War I . Was ordained a priest in 1923.Died June 20, 1966, Louvain. Check http://members.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=48839 and sctn=1

    Jul 09 01, 8:36 PM

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