Ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم
Full Name: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Arabic: أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم
Other Names: Alhazen, al-Baṣrī
Born: c. 965
Died: c. 1040
Origin: Basra, Iraq.
Famous for: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Physicist
Contributions:
Referred to as “the father of modern optics”
Ibn al-Haytham was the first to correctly explain the theory of vision.
He also stated the principle of least time for refraction which would later become the Fermat’s principle.
Articles
https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/ibn-al-haythams-scientific-method
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Haytham/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-al-Haytham