How many scientists can you name?

An embarrassingly small amount, no doubt, but here goes... :p

Dawkins
Gould
Darwin
Freud
Planck
Rutherford
Einstein
Galileo
Hawking
Archimedes
Newton
Harris
Krauss
Schrödinger
Gribbin
Atkins
Freeman

Not as bad as I'd suspected, and I'm sure there are a few others but I'm too tired to retrieve their names.
 
ChroniC said:
Anyone who chooses a girl based on her thumbs needs to see someone like
Binet
Freud
etc :D

Ha I named two I don't think anyone else has, and probably the only two psychologists I know. :)
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I didn't choose her based on her thumbs. That is the point.

I named Freud in an earlier post, and as most of his work has been debunked and I have no issues with my mother I doubt he would be of any use to me.

Now you however, who sees women naked when they are clothed would indeed find some succour from someone like Glasser and his choice theory, or Alfred Kinsey and his research into sexual relationships. :p
 
Angilion said:
That was what I thought, although reading posts from other people showed me that my initial limit of 16 was only a temporary failure of memory because I knew almost all the names.

I'm going to try it at work next week. I think most replies will be along the lines of "Einstein" and "that man in a wheelchair, what's his name?" and that's it.
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I know a significant portion of the names also but when just thinking about the mental list I deliberately didn't look at any other posts in case I added names from there rather than my own recollection.

Work could be quite interesting to see how many names you get.
 
Tunney said:
If I was to be pedantic, I'd point out that people like Archimedes weren't scientists. Scientific methodology wasn't invented until Newton's time so anyone who came before that is really a natural philosopher.
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Was going to point this out myself as well, I don't think its pedantry.
 
I can name quiet a few mainly due to having studied physics and chemistry.

One guy who hasn't been mentioned yet: Wallace Carothers

And he killed himself due to thinking he was a failure.

EDIT: Or Thomas Young
 
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Castiel said:
Ibn al-Haythem (965-1039) an Arab Polymath and scientist further developed Scientisfic method, followed by such luminaries as Galileo who rewrote the book on methodology.
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Al Haytham actually discovered Wilson's Theorem, yet everyone had forgotten by the time Wilson stated it, so he got all the credit. It was only later that it was shown that Al Haytham had actually beaten him to it.
 
Morbius said:
Al Haytham actually discovered Wilson's Theorem, yet everyone had forgotten by the time Wilson stated it, so he got all the credit. It was only later that it was shown that Al Haytham had actually beaten him to it.
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Indeed, as did Bhaskara I several hundred years before him in the 7th Century. He is also reputed to be the mathematician who used a circle for the Zero value in the Hindu-Arabic decimal system.

Also it can be attributed in part to Fibonacci who introduced the Indian-Arabic number system to the West with his Liber Abaci
 
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Off the top of my head, no particular order (16) :)

Nikolai Tesla
Robert Watson Watt
Barnes Wallis
Newton
Einstein
Turing
Archimedes
Galileo
Da Vinci
Hawking
Tim Berners-Lee
Oppenheimer
Werner von Braun
Curie (mr and mrs)
Rontgen
Darwin
 
Newton
Galilieo
Copernicus
Archimedes
Bell
Watt
Da Vinci
Darwin
Fleming
Einstein
Edison
Hawking
Oppenheimer
Pasteur
Marconi
Von Braun
Tesla
 
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