Studies have proven that atheism has a correlation with higher intelligence as seen in prestigious and well respected sites
www.independent.co.uk and
www.dailymail.co.uk so its no wonder to see that atheists have been and are continually making ground breaking achievements and notable strides in world development..
Scientists tend to be/are more likely atheists or agnostics

a respected scientific body;The National academy of sciencs,US in its survey reported that 93% of it scientists were atheists or agnostics...that should ring a bell....

NOTABLE ATHEISTS AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS OF ATHEISTS


In Software/The Internet world

Seun Osewa(??-)----Nairaland;
The biggest and most visited indigenous platform in Africa...

.Mark Zuckerberg(1984-)---Facebook;
the most popular social networking site in the world.

.Jimmy Wales(1966-)---Wikipedia
The largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.

.Steve Jobs(1955-)--Apple inc.
The world's largest information technology company(a weak atheist tho).

.Steve Wozniak (1950–): co-founder of Apple Inc..

.Bill Gates(1955-)--Microsoft
The world's largest PC software company(an agnostic).

.Aaron Swartz (1986–2012):Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the framework web.py and the social news site Reddit,.

.Alan Turing (1912–1954):the father of modern computer science.and the founder of artificial intelligence..
The fact that you're reading these words on a phone -- the fact that you can send email, text your loved ones in an emergency, do your banking in seconds instead of hours,and anything in relation to computer science and computers that have radically shaped and improved our lives -- is something you owe, in large part, to Alan Turing.


But even more inspiring is the work he did cracking
German codes during World War II.
And helped bl..eepep up hitler
The Turing Award, often recognized as the "Nobel Prize of computing", is named after him

Outstanding Breakthrough's in Biological field et Chemical Field
David R. Nalin (1941)
Nalin led the trials that first demonstrated ORT works, both in cholera patients, and more significantly, also in other dehydrating diarrhea
illnesses. Nalin's discoveries have been estimated to have saved over 50 million lives worldwide.
The so called God's couldnt.

.
Fred Hollows (1929 – 1993),
known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless
thousands of people in Australia and many other countries..

.James D. Watson (1928–):
Nobel prize winner and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

.Francis Crick (1916–2004):
noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule and a Nobel prize winnner.

.Norman Pirie FRS (1907–1997):discoverer of viral crystallization, an important milestone in understanding DNA and RNA..

.Richard J. Roberts (1943–):
won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.

.George Washington Crile (1864–1943):Formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion.

.Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas (1920 –2012) Thomas and his wife and research partner Dottie Thomas developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia..

.Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012): received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).

.
Ian Wilmut (1944–):best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly..

.John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971): the ''father of X-ray crystallography '' in molecular biology..

.W. Grey Walter (1910–1977): famous for his work on brain waves, and robotician..

.james Chadwick (1891–1974): English physicist. He won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron..

.Henry Canvendish(1731-1810):
british scientist...discovered Hydrogen.

.Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958): won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity..

.Sir John Leslie (1766–1832):
best known for his research into heat;he was the first person to artificially produce ice

Inventions and Inventors



The World's Most Important Inventor,Thomas Edison;
He is responsible for some of the most important inventions in the world:they are just too many to list.

.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922)
inventor of the first practical telephone..

.Emile Berliner---- known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph).

.Frank Whittle (1907–1996):
He is credited with independently
inventing the turbojet engine and is ''the father of jet propulsion''.

.John Logie Baird (1888–1946)
inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic
colour television tube.

.john bardeen ----won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956
with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor.

.Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829)
Inventor of the davy lamp used by miners..
Discovered alkali's and alkali earth metals.

.Wallace carothers(1896-1937):
he is credited with the invention of nylon....

.Joseph Weber (1919–2000): developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars).

.Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740–1810):paper-manufacturer...he
made the first ascent in a balloon (warm air balloon).

.Lee de Forest (1873-1961)
with over 180 patents to
his credit;invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and
amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", He is also credited with one of the principal inventions that brought sound to motion pictures.

In Modern Science
Alan Turing (1912–1954):the father of modern computer science.and the founder of artificial intelligence..
The fact that you're reading these words on a phone -- the fact that you can send email, text your loved ones in an emergency, do your banking in seconds instead of hours,and anything in relation to computer science and computers that have radically shaped and improved our lives -- is something you owe, in large part, to Alan Turing.


But even more inspiring is the work he did cracking
German codes during World War II.
And helped bl..eepep up hitler
The Turing Award, often recognized as the "Nobel Prize of computing", is named after him.



.Santiago ramon cajal(1852-1934):he is the ''father of modern neuroscience''..he won the nobel prize in medicine in 1996.

.Niels Bohr (1885–1962): Best known for his foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum
mechanics,Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

.Claude Shannon (1916–2001): A mathematician,"the father of information theory", and
was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory.

.Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961):
A pioneer of quantum mechanics and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics.

.MMarshall Rosenbluth (1927–2003): nicknamed "the Pope of Plasma
Physics"..laid the foundations for instability theory in plasma physics..

.Steven Weinberg (1933–):won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force..

.Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953)
known for his immense contributions in cosmology;known as "Hubble's law" etc and the hubble telescope is named after him.

.
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1772–1850):He is known mostly for two laws related to gases;Gay-lussac's Law..

.E. T. 'Teddy' Hall (1924–2001): famous for exposing the Piltdown Man fraud and the Shroud of Turin to be a medieval fake.

.Edmond Halley (1656–1742):Best known for computing the orbit of the Halley's Comet..

.
Stephen Hawking (1942–):
Yall know him....

.Peter Higgs (1929–):known for his prediction of the existence of a particle, the Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle"..

.Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927): Swedish scientist and the first Swedish Nobel Prize winner..

.James Watt,(1736-1819)
He developed the concept of horsepower and the
SI unit of power, the watt, was named after him..

.Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979):
known for correctly solving andshowing that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen, contradicting accepted wisdom at the time..

.Harlow Shapley (1885–1972) was an American astronomer.He correctly estimated the size of the Milky Way Galaxy and the sun's position,,he is the inventor of the concept of a habitable zone..

.Albert Abraham Michelson–-- known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially
for the Michelson-Morley experiment; in 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics(first american to do so)

For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."



It's just hard work & God's Mercy whether they believe in Him or not #MyViewTho

In Literary Works


William 'Strata' Smith (1769–1839) credited with creating the first nationwide geological map.(distinct excerpt)

In our backyard here

Wole Soyinka (born 1934): Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature..

.Nadine Gordimer (born 1923): South African writer She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991

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Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910):one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary..

.Henry Cadbury (1883–1974): a biblical scholar who contributed to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible..

.Richard Dawkins (born 1941):popular scientist and an Author of books such as the popular best selling--The God Delusion (2006)..

.Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986).Best known as the author of the revolutionary feminist book, The
Second Sex,1949; it paved th e
way for the women’s rights movement of the
1970s and continues to influence today’s activists.

.George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950): He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938).

.Claude Simon (1913–2005):
The 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature..

.Gao Xingjian (born 1940):
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000..

.Albert Camus (1913–1960):
won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957..

.Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907):
The first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.(1906).

.Anatole France (1844-1924):
Nobel Prize in Literature (1921)..

.Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974):
won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951..

.Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958): winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature..

.Pablo Neruda (1904–1973):
1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature..

.Harold Pinter (1930–2008): Nobel Prize-winning English playwright,.

.José Saramago (1922–2010): Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.

.
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936):
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934..

.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980),
1964 Nobel Prize in literature that he refused..

.Sam Harris (born 1967):
Neuroscientist and an author of Books promoting skeptism to blind faith.

.Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011):an author of Books promoting skeptism to blind faith

Nobel laureates with multiple Nobel
awards

It is astonishing to note that the four people who have won The nobel prize more than once...have all been ATHEISTS



MARIE CURIE(1867-1934)
''Mother Of Radioactivity''
She is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences;Physics(1903) and Chemistry(1911)
discovered radium and polonium.

.Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994)
''Father of Quantum chemistry''
and a pioneer of ''molecular biology''
The only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes..

.John Bardeen(1908-1991)
won the nobel prize in physics in 1956 and 1972.
inventor of the transistor.

.Frederick Sanger(1918-2013)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958),(1980)
known for his work on proteins;
esp the Amino acid sequence of insulin
(an ironical atheist)

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this is just a few of the many atheists who have walked this earth and done wonderful things to earth...i didnt even mention people like karl max,nietzche and other important scientists,,sports men,,etc...
The fact is that atheists and atheism has been instrumental to the development to the world,
undestanding nature and the universe..despite their small numbers unlike some group of persons who prefer the term ''GOD DID IT'' and who say this life is not worth it..

Other wonderful atheists can be found here...Lists_of_atheists

famous irreligious thinkers

famous skeptics

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ammyluv2002:
For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."



It's just hard work & God's Mercy whether they believe in Him or not #MyViewTho

its a lie...
Its their hardwork maa'm..
Hardwork pays..not belief and hope in a deity...

ammyluv2002:
For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."



It's just hard work & God's Mercy whether they believe in Him or not #MyViewTho

Which god?

Ok, I hear you. I will be waiting for the part two of your write up Titled-Atheist that amounted to nothing in life. Op, you think been opposed to God or denying his existence makes someone smart. Well done eh!

Between, not all of them are atheist or agnostics, check yr facts again.

brodalikeme:
Ok, I hear you. I will be waiting for the part two of your write up Titled-Atheist that amounted to nothing in life. Op, you think been opposed to God or denying his existence makes someone smart. Well done eh!

Between, not all of them are atheist or agnostics, check yr facts again.

Wetin do your hand?

This thread does not belong in this section

brodalikeme:
Ok, I hear you. I will be waiting for the part two of your write up Titled-Atheist that amounted to nothing in life. Op, you think been opposed to God or denying his existence makes someone smart. Well done eh!

if you know who simone de beauvior is...you'd know her atheism made her become a pioneer of female rights..
no one opposes God...he's not there..thats all

Between, not all of them are atheist or agnostics, check yr facts again.

kindly bring out the one which is not!
#Yimu
be talking shvt you hear?

Scholar8200:
This thread does not belong in this section

oga do you remember this thread?
www.nairaland.com/3299993/what-prominent-achievements-made-atheists

raphieMontella:

oga do you remember this thread?
www.nairaland.com/3299993/what-prominent-achievements-made-atheists

okay

hahn:


Wetin do your hand?

ValentineMary:
Nice post OP but u left out Albert Einstein.

issh!!
I left out the major guy sef

Scholar8200:
okay

yep...so i dont think it is on the wrong section!

Nice one op but here are notable mentions.


Albert Einstein
Richard Feyman
Prof Lawrence Krauss
Prof Michu Kaku
Socrates (The very first Atheist that ever lived and died for it)
Eddie Griffin (most intelligent comendian)
Hopsin
Action Bronson
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Barrack Obama (closeted Atheist, Politically Christian....he was raised in atheist home)
Neil Dagresse Tyson (smartest black man)
Dead Prez
Rafeal Nadal
Bruce Lee
And My humble self.

ammyluv2002:
For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."



It's just hard work & God's Mercy whether they believe in Him or not #MyViewTho

God said to moses...
Were you there?

hahn:


Which god?

The one u always talk about.

raphieMontella:

issh!!
I left out the major guy sef

i demand to know why Neil deGrasse Tyson is not in that list

felixomor:

The one u always talk about.

Zeus?

hahn:


Zeus?

Coward.

felixomor:

Coward.

Mugu

Edenoscar:
i demand to know why Neil deGrasse Tyson is not in that list

they are too much ni i knew i omitted a lot of them..

aaronson:
Nice one op but here are notable mentions.


Albert Einstein
Richard Feyman
Prof Lawrence Krauss
Prof Michu Kaku
Socrates (The very first Atheist that ever lived and died for it)
Eddie Griffin (most intelligent comendian)
Hopsin
Action Bronson
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Barrack Obama (closeted Atheist, Politically Christian....he was raised in atheist home)
Neil Dagresse Tyson (smartest black man)
Dead Prez
Rafeal Nadal
Bruce Lee
And My humble self.

i say...if i start to list ehn...
I got tired...
atheists have been fundamental to the universe...

hahn:


Mugu

U r not even man enough to defend ur 'religion'
Mscheww.