Who is your favourite scientist of all time?
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Nenad Markovic for me, mainly because I love his work.
http://www.msd.anl.gov/index.php/ecs-personnel/42-personnel/personnel-srs/153
In terms of more well known scientists, I would go with Faraday, altho as said, Richard Fenyman is also very good even if its just for the dumbed down physics books he wrote that allow me to actually understand some of the subject.
http://www.msd.anl.gov/index.php/ecs-personnel/42-personnel/personnel-srs/153
In terms of more well known scientists, I would go with Faraday, altho as said, Richard Fenyman is also very good even if its just for the dumbed down physics books he wrote that allow me to actually understand some of the subject.
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With incredible talent to go with it.
Do you follow much of Hawking's work?
I doubt it....
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But also equally Dirac, Heisenberg, Pauli, Fermi and everyone else who has contributed to QED.
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I think Al-Haytham (Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham) deserves at least a mention.
Many great names mentioned here, but Al Haytham surely has an impeccable claim. The great pioneer of the scientific method, ground-breaking work in several fields (optics, astronomy, mechanics), and pre-figured many of Newton's contributions to optics more than 600 years earlier.
And what sets him apart from the other great candidates mentioned here is that he did all of this more than 1000 years ago, before the enlightenment, before the renaissance, before the community of scientists in which the work of others blossomed. A truly remarkable man in the history of science.
Many great names mentioned here, but Al Haytham surely has an impeccable claim. The great pioneer of the scientific method, ground-breaking work in several fields (optics, astronomy, mechanics), and pre-figured many of Newton's contributions to optics more than 600 years earlier.
And what sets him apart from the other great candidates mentioned here is that he did all of this more than 1000 years ago, before the enlightenment, before the renaissance, before the community of scientists in which the work of others blossomed. A truly remarkable man in the history of science.
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Ahhh, so you did! I thought I'd read this thread closely too...
Without doubt Carl Sagan, also James Lovelock, Einstein and Feynman for their incredible imagination.
I think the best scientist are those that teach themselves, they're the ones that unlock the real mysteries about the nature of reality.
I think the best scientist are those that teach themselves, they're the ones that unlock the real mysteries about the nature of reality.