Avicenna
c. 980–1037
Persian polymath whose medical encyclopedia was used for centuries.
Avicenna (c. 980–1037) was a philosopher and physician, born in Afshona and died in Hamadan.
- Known as
- Philosopher and physician
- Category
- Thinkers
- Born
- c. 980, Afshona
- Died
- 1037, Hamadan
Alive at the same time as Avicenna
- Ferdowsi 940–c. 1020, poet
- Erik the Red c. 950–c. 1003, explorer
- Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–c. 1040, physicist
- Leif Erikson c. 970–c. 1020, explorer
- Al-Biruni 973–c. 1050, scholar
- Murasaki Shikibu c. 973–c. 1014, novelist
- William the Conqueror c. 1028–1087, king
- Shen Kuo 1031–1095, polymath
Portrait: Original work: Abolhassan Sadighi Depiction: User:Ehsan 1987, Public domain.
