Theoretical physicists or mathematicians may be included.
I would lean toward Tesla or Planck. Both were amazing and both made discoveries that are widely used today.
Theoretical physicists or mathematicians may be included.
I would lean toward Tesla or Planck. Both were amazing and both made discoveries that are widely used today.
Definitely Tesla.
Can't really think right now but Tesla is a great choice. The world would not be the same without him.
Alternating Current FTW.
Bill Nye.
Franz (sp?) Haber was a brilliant one too.
Linus Pauling, arguably the greatest scientist of the 20th century and one of the (if not the greatest) chemist of all time.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
George Boole
I'll go with Tesla, especially since very few people know of him.
mathdude wrote:
I'll go with Tesla, especially since very few people know of him.
Are you trolling? He has an SI unit named after him.
Dr. Andrea Cooper
physicist: J.C. Maxwell
mathematician: Euler
Fritz Haber is DQ'ed -- inventing nerve gas stuff for WWI. Besides, he was good but he was not that good.
I would put the able 'chemist'/physicist Lise Meitner - Nobel for theorizing how her co-workers splitting of the atom worked. She gets a bunch of points because of how difficult it was to work as a woman at that time.
Bohr was better than all of those mentioned here, but he has been pretty well appreciated. Try reading "Making of the Atomic Bomb"; it covers a lot of history many decades before the war.
Are you tabbing Tesla because he was a scientist of great production or an inventor?
Max Born tends to be under-appreciated even though he eventually did win a Nobel Prize.
To call Planck under-appreciated is to misunderstand history and to come at it too much later. Maybe students now do not appreciate him but he was the grand old man.
Ron Artest
Isaac Newton
Claude Shannon
Alan Turing was a genius that could see patterns like no one else. He cracked German codes in WW2 and saved thousands of lives. His discoveries led to the modern day computer.
in the Brillouin zone wrote:
physicist: J.C. Maxwell
mathematician: Euler
Euler is pretty well known by anyone who's taken a calculus class
rgthjsrtg wrote:
Alan Turing was a genius that could see patterns like no one else. He cracked German codes in WW2 and saved thousands of lives. His discoveries led to the modern day computer.
Alan Turing is a good one. Judging by his lengthy Wikipedia article, I'd consider him fairly well known - at least in science circles. Jacob Bjerknes was also a genius that could see pattern like no one else and his discoveries are saving lives and will continue to save lives as long there is an atmosphere. Even in science circles I feel he is rarely brought up or heard of.
Marie Curie. Pauling is justifiably famous for winning Nobel Chemistry and Peace prizes; Mme Curie won Nobel prizes in both Physics and Chemistry, the only person (male or female) ever to do so. Not bad for a woman at the turn of the 20th century. She was famous in her time, but not as widely known now as the many Nobel winning atomic/particle physicists that followed her.