/sci/ - Science & Math

Charles Darwin. However if he had the skills he would have discovered Mendel's laws and population genetics.

>>9628038
Nikola Tesla

He was a College Dropout, he studied few semesters of Electrical Engineering,
but he dropped out due to a low GPA, so never got a diploma.

He had practical electrician skills, and he made great inventions, but he was academically a brainlet.

>>9628038
Michael Faraday.
Couldn't do the math but was a demon experimenter with excellent visualization skills..
Came up with empirical rules for "lines of force".

>>9628074
It also helps growing up in an era immediately after a bunch of dramatic new scientific discoveries and being able to play around with toys all the time.

Today, there's very little to invent that doesn't require PhD level knowledge.

faraday was the greatest experimentalist in the history of science

>>9628123
>Today, there's very little to invent that doesn't require PhD level knowledge.
This is what a lack of imagination looks like.

>>9628280
Certainly at least one of the greatest.
Was not meaning to denigrate him in any way.
So he thought in terms of the mechanisms he was familiar with. The "lines of force" were rotated vortex tubes of aether. There were even "idler wheels" separating them so adjacent ones didn't rub as they counter-rotated.

>>9628280
Certainly one of the greatest. Maybe THE greatest.
Did not intend to denigrate him in any way.
But he thought in terms of the mechanisms he was familiar with.
"Lines of force" were rotating vortex-tubes of aether.
There were even little "idler wheels" in the interstices between them to prevent them "jamming" as they counter-rotated.

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>>9628074
He was an excellent student in his first year, who could do integral calculus on his head (and thus was accused of cheating on tests). Being "academically a brainlet" doesn't imply that he's a math brainlet

>>9628038
Probably some Biologists or Biochemists

>>9628385
maybe he just memorized rules and didn't write show his work on the exam

>>9628038
E.O. Wilson for example.

>>9628123
>Today, there's very little to invent that doesn't require PhD level knowledge.
I'm pretty sure the equivalent of this statement has been said since galileo's time ,it can't possibly be true .

>>9628038
Great scientist only because great because of chance. So many at their skill but they just so happened to find something new.

>>9628123
Mindset of a slave

>>9628089
>Michael Faraday.
This is probably the best example. He succeeded tremendously in physics despite not even going to school or being educated in even the most basic mathematics

>>9629781
If you discover something new you're pretty fucking great

>>9628089
>Michael Faraday
>>9628280
>the greatest experimentalist
>>9629812
>not even going to school

Faraday. t. greatest Brainlet in History of Science.

>>9628038
Sigmund Fraud (If Psychology is a Science)

Although 95% of what he said/wrote was proved wrong

>>9628038
Thomas Edison

Although He technically wasn't a scientist, He was a businessman.
He didn't even intent the lamp, he took credit, stealing the idea from his employees.

>>9628043
>Charles Darwin

>>9628401
& many Biofags

How do I be a great scientist who's bad at math if the only experiments that exist in my field are all in the mind?

(Not a social science )

>>9628646
ant stamp collector is not great

>>9629824
He was not a brainlet, he just couldn't afford an education. Luckily Maxwell could help him out with the math.