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 Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:05 pm
Don't forget about Euler and Edison. Both very important.
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:37 pm
Obviously Einstein He invented E=MC2
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:40 pm
...Well Maybe I should say, discovered.
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:36 pm
Nah he invented it, Nature does its thing, and we give names to those things, and math is one of those "names" we give to things. So yeah, he invented it. mrgreen
I'm still standing by Newton though. mrgreen
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Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:39 pm
mmm Newton I guess, I'm studying physics at the moment and every second law we seem to use was made by that guy. But if you think about it, all of the ideas and such from these people are very important, it's hard to place one person above another.
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:26 am
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:48 am
My personal favoret was not on there. My favoret is Arcamedies.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:51 am
~Le Lei~ I have a person not very many people know about and I absolute love her!
Rosalind Franklin. She would've won a Nobel Prize if she had not died of cancer before the awards were given out....D:
She was the one who helped figure out what the "secret of life" was. She took early photos of DNA and helped contribute to modern day DNA research. Without her work, we wouldn't know about heredity or genetics.
I also love her because she fought past the discrimination of the men in King's College in London to finish her work on DNA.
Can you believe she did Arithmatic for fun?! I have to agree here. It's amazing how many scientists don't get the credit they really deserve. A shame, really. For example, Armedeo Avogadro: pretty much defined gas laws that will still use today and gave us the ever important constant 6.022 x 10^23. I mean really. Chemistry is the central science and how much would we not understand with out his contribution!?
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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:25 pm
VoijaRisa Of the ones you have there, it's unquestiongly Newton. His work made an entirely new way of analysis of the universe (Force based) that is still the foundation of almost all modern physics today. None of the others have left nearly such a legacy. Meanwhile, my most highly ranked would be Hubble who proved that the universe is much larger than we'd accepted at the time. you took the words right out of my mouth
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:06 pm
James Hutton - the father of modern geology. He advocated uniformitarianism, important in geology and evolution. He also came up with theories on rock formation, and paved some of the way to plate tectonics.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:14 pm
For me, it's probably Galileo.
Galileo faced near impossible odds, and still managed
to become one of the greatest contributors to the scientific
community. He faced unsurmountable opposition from the
church (for fellow trekkies - the episode of Voyager, "Distant
Origin" [Season 3, Episode 23] provides an uncanny parallel)
not only for the heliocentric theory, but for his observations
of sunspots as well (they went again the doctrine's belief in
the universe's perfection). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I also have to mention
Max Planck, because
Planck's is my favorite
constant :] . . . . . . . .
Hmm. I wonder if our favorite scientists
(astronomers, physicists, geneticists, etc)
reflect our area of scientific interest? Mine
certainly does, at least. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:44 pm
I am going to say that Einstein truly is the greatest scientist. He was so dedicated to his work. He even created the Theory of Relativity, Space-Time, and started the Unification Theory. Although he died before he finished it, his huge contributions got the scientists where they are today. You should watch this video on youtube. This is only the first part but in the "related videos" section, there should be parts 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJIwqmre50c&feature=related
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:49 pm
But i guess Newton was pretty awesome, too.
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:56 pm
belleanomalie
Hmm. I wonder if our favorite scientists
(astronomers, physicists, geneticists, etc)
reflect our area of scientific interest? Mine
certainly does, at least. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
That wouldn't surprise me, Newton's my favorite and Physics is my favorite branch of science so.
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:58 am
I love DaVinci. He was born in the wrong century for sure. If technology had been more advanced...I am sure we would have seen more great things.
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