/sci/ - Science & Math

>sagan
>degrasse
>scientists

>>6212493
>Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist

That's not enough for you? Faggot.

>>6212497
i can already tell you're someone in 10th grade who just discovered hurr science via facebook "Science pwns!" newsfeed

i hope your atoms are extinguished from this universe

>>6212502
>2013
>facebook

capthca: dust asustms

>>6212502
But he IS a scientist

>>6212497
Sagan was a planetary scientist not a cosmologist.

>>6212493
Tyson published a number of decent papers, he is very much a scientist.

>>6212490
I'm a fan of Roger Penrose. Mathematician turned physicist, introduced topology into physics for the first time, used it (somehow) to prove there's a singularity in every black hole.

richard dawkins :^)

Tesla, pleb

Feynman is my favorite. Perhaps followed by Paul Dirac.

A lot of my third-favorites are not so much scientists as mathematicians...I love William Thurston and David Hilbert. Georg Cantor is my husbando.

(from wiki)
Sir Francis Galton, FRS (/ˈfrɑːnsJs ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.

Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies.

He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the phrase "nature versus nurture". His book Hereditary Genius (1869) was the first social scientific attempt to study genius and greatness.[1]

As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology and the lexical hypothesis of personality. He devised a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science. He also conducted research on the power of prayer, concluding it had none by its null effects on the longevity of those prayed for.[2]

As the initiator of scientific meteorology, he devised the first weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones, and was the first to establish a complete record of short-term climatic phenomena on a European scale.[3] He also invented the Galton Whistle for testing differential hearing ability. [4]

Michio Kaku :)

>>6212832

Yeah, and my favourite soccer player is Stephen Hawking

Euler is not amused

>>6212493

>>6212490
poincare
descartes
pascal
william james

It seems all the former Sagan fans became Feynman groupies, where does one go after that?

Jacob Barnett

>>6212889
kill yourself

Newton was pretty fuckin cool.

>>6212490
Euler
Cauchy
Gauss
Fourier

Dyson

Inventor of the Dyson sphere, world-famous vacuum.

Archimedes.

>>6212490
Wow thats easy. Feynman was great, but hugely overrated. A far better teacher than Scientist. I've often put some thought into this, what scientists would make my greatest of all time list, so I will spit out some names in the order I usually place them-

Einstein
Newton

(I'm aware Newton often is considered the greater of the two, I put Einstein first because he had to defeat an incumbent world view, when Newton arrived, physics was essentially a blank slate; history hadn't afforded him a set of blinkers as it had for Einstein).

Maxwell

(I truly can't fathom why Maxwell is left off so many lists)

Darwin

(The greatest scientist who is not a physicist. Evolutionary theory made possible a completely material world view- it was the beginning of Science answering questions seen solely as a preserve of religion).

Linus Pauling

(History's greatest chemist, one of sciences quintessential mad geniuses).

As you can see, Feynmann fails to make even my top 5. Frankly, he wouldn't make my top 20; but he was a great man and a great educator.

>>6212490
Newton is regarded as the 2nd most influential person of all time in The 100: A ranking of the most influential persons in history (published in 1978),
Einstein is 10th on that list.
Although I do like Feynmann for his theories and his charisma, I don't think his ideas were as revolutionary as Newton and Einstein.
Although I'm not very knowledgeable about all of their works.
I know Newton pretty much is the founding father of classical mechanics.
Einstein provided proof for quantum mechanics through the photoelectric effect (for which he received his Nobel Prize, and not for his world famous E=mc^2).
Feynmann isn't as well known by the general public, and I'm not very knowledgeable of him in general, but I think his Q.E.D is probably his most important work.

>>6213026
>Maxwell
Yes, I was about to suggest him.

>Linus Pauling, history's greatest chemist
IIRC he got the structure of DNA wrong and ended his career as a quack advocate of huge doses of vitamins.
Pretty damning stuff for best chemist ever (but I don't mean to suggest that one ought to be defined solely by one's failures in the face of one's accomplishments).
I'm hesitant to suggest another person for 'best chemist' b/c my knowledge base is biased towards organic chemists, I know less about early generalists and other fields.
Perhaps Woodward, he was the king of synthetic organic chemistry before the mid-20th century era investigations into physical organic chemistry, and yet he was also an important figure within those efforts.

>>6213035
I would agree, that Newton was more influential, but stand by my view that Einstein was a greater Scientist. Physics had to undergo a radical reformation for Einsteins discoveries; not so for Newton, as there WAS no physics before Newton. As far as I'm concerned, this makes Einstein a better scientist, but Newton more influential; Newton single handedly founded a field and bought order to our understanding of the universe.

>>6213057
einstein was a far better physicist than newton, but newton gave contributions to mathematics engineering and pretty much invented classical physics, I'd say newton was better in practical terms, while einsten revolutionized an entire worldview of physics today

I'm a Chemist so I raise you Walter Nernst.

Formulated the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics and made many other discoveries being base of everyday technology.

Well I always liked Hamilton and the stories of his adventures.

>>6213044
>ended his career as a quack advocate of huge doses of vitamins.

giving controversial medical advice that was understandable for the knowledge of his time, some of it has been proven wrong and some of it has been proven right today, yes. every scientist has that with some of his beliefs becoming updated. just because his happened to fall in medicine don't make him different to any other great scientist you can think of.

dirac.

apart from working out the maths for quantum mechanics, he laid the mathematical foundation for all digital sound and vision with the impulse function.
The inverse laplace transform of one.
Master Physicist. Feynman was a showman compared.

>>6213086
I like the nernst equation, and use it at work sometimes. But its a bit pedestrian. Its not like amazing insights into the way the world woks.

>>6213115
Yeah, but he did have the idea for the Thermodynamics Law - so he did that, too.
Besides the Nernst equation and his Law of Distribution (name?) between phases are fundamental to many everyday tech objects and processes. Something we often forget about because it seems too basic and self-evident.
But that might be a very application-oriented view.

>>6213109
sure, that's why I added the caveat of not judging solely on the basis of failings.

Maybe a better question is why, as a chemist, did he feel it was appropriate to advocate "controversial medical advice"?

/r/ing the smbc strip about aging physicists as related

>>6213118
was tat entropy?

>>6213121
dude it's literally googling old physicist smbc

but yeah, it's only that when you do pic related on medicine, and times proves you not 100% right, you get pretty bad rap. of course it's partly justified, since it's people's health.

how has emmy noether not been mentioned? the link between conservation and symmetry is one of the most insightful and important things in theoretical physics and our understanding of the universe

>>6213135
entropy in general is 2nd
third says S(perfect crystal,T=0K) = 0

I know you said scientists but w/e.

>>6213148
thanks for posting it
(and yes I am that lazy)

turing
because he was open minded homosexual

>>6213132
that would imply poets are more clever than scientists

>>6213157
Oh, you!

>>6213203
No, that would imply poets masturbate with words.