Al Kindi was born in 801 AD, into a Bedouin tribe, and went to school to learn and got attracted to the House of Wisdom. He became the father of Islamic philosophy .
When Islam conquered Persia, the people learned about China’s use of paper. That attracted Al Khwarizmi to the House of Wisdom, where he invented Algebra, a new kind of math
Al Razi was born in 854 AD, on the Silk Road. He moved to Bagdad for a better education and became a doctor. He was the first to identify small pox as a different disease than measles, and then he started teaching in a hospital.
Al Hazen was born in 965 AD, on the coast of Iraq, and moved to Egypt. There he discovered how the eyeball works.
Although the people that I wrote about above did things no one else did at their time, they did not make an advancement in physics. The reason that the four Islamic scholars didn’t excel in physics is because they had a poor idea and had to stick to Aristotle’s theory, like the reason the Islamics thought rocks fall: Aristotle said the rocks loved the core of the earth and so they tried to get there.
Stuff That Jack Built 