Galileo Galilei from Top 10 Scientists Of All Time

Usually well-known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and thinker who performed a main role in the scientific revolution. His successes include improvements to the scope and consequent astronomic observations, as well assupport for Copernicanism. Galileo has been named :the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics" and "the Father of Modern Science". Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."