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Albert Camus
Camus (1913-60) is one of the greatest French existentialist philosophers. He won a Nobel Prize for Literature. In such works as The Myth of Sisyphus, he introduced his philosophy of the absurd.

Georg Cantor
Cantor (1845-1918) was a legendary mathematician who made major contributions to the mathematics of infinity, created set theory and propounded the continuum hypothesis.

Fritjof Capra
Professor of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley whose The Tao of Physics was an international bestseller. In his view, the findings of the New Physics establish the claims of Eastern monism.

Arthur Compton
American atomic physicist who helped prove the existence of the light quantum, the photon.

Nicholas Copernicus
Copernicus (1473-1543) revolutionized cosmology with his thesis that the sun and not the earth was the center of the universe. The Polish thinker's "Copernician Revolution" was laid out in his On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres which was published as he lay on his death-bed.

Frederick Copleston
British historian of philosophy who authored a nine-volume history of philosophy. He also authored numerous other books such as Philosophies and Philosophers and Religion and the One. He is also known for his debate with Bertrand Russell on the existence of God.

William Lane Craig
American philosopher who pioneered the kalam cosmological argument in modern times. His arguments seek to show that the universe had to have a beginning in time.

Francis Crick
Co-discoverer, in 1953, of the structure of DNA. Crick has also pursued investigations into the origin of life and the nature of consciousness.