Who is your favourite scientist of all time?

[Efour]

Sheldon Cooper... lol very good.

Mine would be James Hutton if i had to pick one.

 

[wyrd]

Someone had to say it

And, davedudes, as if you're not familiar with his fine work - this is an outrage!

 

[Jack Bauer]

OK, now we've got that dispute out of the way, can we start nit-picking about how some people have chosen a natural philosopher rather than a scientist?

I would think for the purpose of this discussion they can be considered one and the same.

 

[sarge78]

TV regulars: Michio Kaku and Jim Al-Khalili.

Fictional: Emmett Brown.

All time: Tommy Flowers.

 

[Ev0]

Probably Alan Turing.

Personally this one for me as well.

 

[Moza]

I shall go for Galileo.

 

[synixx]

Carl Sagan without a doubt. Cosmos was fantastic!

 

[Nitefly]

You win and for that reason I now choose The Angel Of Death Josef Mengele.
The experiments he carried out in Birkenau were nothing short of spectacular for the medical profession and especially identical twins.

Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
Burning flesh, Drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, Your mind starts to boil
Frigid cold, Cracks your limbs
How long can you last
In this frozen water burial?
Sewn together, Joining heads
Just a matter of time
'Til you rip yourselves apart
Millions laid out in their
Crowded tombs
Sickening ways to achieve
The holocaust
Seas of blood, Bury life
Smell your death as it burns
Deep inside of you
Abacinate, eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of
Your wide awake nightmare
Wings of pain, Reach out for you
His face of death staring down,
Your blood running cold
Injecting cells, Dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of
The mutants he's creating
Pathetic harmless victims
Left to die
Rancid Angel of Death
Flying free

Yeah.

I try and avoid calling maniacs anything with a positive connotation.

 

[SMed]

Ooo, that's a toughy...

 

[SexyGreyFox]

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Leonardo
On: BBC 2 Midlands (2)
Date: Tuesday 13th December 2011 (starting in 3 hours and 13 minutes)
Time: 23:20 to 00:20 (1 hour long)

The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything. Episode 1.
Documentary examining the life of Leonardo da Vinci, from his illegitimate birth to the unveiling of his masterpiece The Last Supper in Milan in 1497. Learning his craft at the heart of the Renaissance movement in Florence, Leonardo survives arrest to win the patronage of the powerful tyrant Ludivico Sforza, Duke of Milan. While working for Sforza, he paints Madonna of the Rocks, works out why the sky is blue and becomes the first person to properly dissect a human body. He also becomes a practical engineer. The programme builds and tries out two designs from that period - an armoured war vehicle and a parachute.
(Stereo, Repeat, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described)

Starring: Mark Rylance, Che Cartwright, James Faulkner, Paul Brooke

 

[PermaBanned]

Thanks for the heads up, first i've heard about it

 

[samir_ansari]

Nicola Tesla gets my vote.