Lihadh Al-Gazali, geneticist Grigor Gurzadyan, Armenian astronomer, and pioneer of space astronomy, born October 15, 1922, in Baghdad to parents who fled in 1915 Western Armenia. Hunayn ibn Ishaq, scientist and physician Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen/Alhazen) Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi Jafar Dhia Jafar, Iraqi nuclear physicist. Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist, author and science communicator; professor of theoretical physics and chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey.