Christian Jeanette Epps is an aerospace engineer and a NASA astronaut. She is a graduate of Le Moyne college in Syracuse, NY, a Jesuit institution. Click here for Vatican Observatory Faith and Science entries about Jeanette J. Epps.

Christian Dorothy Vaughn, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden were mathematicians, engineers, and computer programmers working at NASA Langley during the “Space Race”. They were also all women were people of faith. Their story was brought to light by Margot Lee Shetterly in her best-selling book Hidden Figures, which was made into a movie of the same name. Click here for Vatican Observatory Faith and Science entries about NASA’s “Hidden Figures”.

Christian Katharine Hayhoe is an evangelical Christian who is also director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University and has been a lead author on the U.S. government’s National Climate Assessment. Click here for Vatican Observatory Faith and Science entries about Katharine Hayhoe.  

Catholic Christian Robert Grosseteste was Bishop of Lincoln in England in the thirteenth century. He wrote on a variety of topics related to science. Click here for Vatican Observatory Faith and Science entries about Robert Grosseteste.  

Catholic Christian Maria Montessori was the first woman doctor in Italy. She studied subjects from mathematics to anthropology to philosophy at advanced levels, and was a scientist by training, who used her training to study how children learned. Click here for Vatican Observatory Faith and Science entries about Maria Montessori.