The Society of Catholic Scientists has a list of Catholic scientists with short biographies attached. They state that their list is specifically about scientists who “made important contributions or breakthroughs” to some branch of science (or, I assume, mathematics).
I’ve worked on lists like this for twenty-five years so I was fascinated to look through the list on this website. The Society doesn’t include Father Matteo Ricci or Father Verbiest, the priests whose scientific endeavors helped to evangelize China, but I presume it’s because Father Ricci was a good scientist who didn’t himself make an important contribution. Same with Father Verbiest.
I was surprised not to find Louis De Broglie on the list and went looking around. I discovered that he had been invited to join a group of French Catholic scientists and had declined on the basis that he had given up the practices of his youth. That was a downer to read. At least he didn’t actively shun and blacklist Catholic scientists, as Madame Curie did with Pierre Duhem.
Here’s the list … https://catholicscientists.org/scientists-of-the-past/
And here are links to the biographies of two archeologists. Abbe Breuil worked on the caves at Lascaux where some of the first cave paintings were discovered. Dorothy Garrod was a disciple of his.
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