al-Rāzī: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī • Rhazes
Born c.854 • Rayy • Iran
Died 925 or 935 • Rayy • Iran
Notable Works “Kitāb al-Manṣūrī” • “Kitāb al-ḥāwī”

The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
Bronze statue of Maimonides, depicted with a beard and wearing a turban, shown from the chest up against a clear blue background.
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Greek physician
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Albert Schweitzer, with a mustache and wavy hair, poses in a thoughtful manner with his hand resting on his chin, photographed by Yousuf Karsh.
Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian-German theologian and physician
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Ivan Illich
Austrian philosopher and priest
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
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Nicholas Of Cusa
cardinal, scientist, scholar, and philosopher
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
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Isaac ben Solomon Israeli
Jewish physician and philosopher