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Greatest scientists: Einstein, Tesla, Maxwell, Gauss, Newton, Feynman
>>MFW nobody objects

>> No.1854359
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>>1854342
FUCK YOUR SHIT
NO one beats Dr. B!

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>>1854359

>> No.1854369

Darwin?

Lewis?

MFW I don't have any good reaction images

>> No.1854374

>>1854359

This thread is about those who actually PROGRESSED a scientific field or fields, not pop-scientists LOL.

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>>1854367
I am glad you agree on Dr. B!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

>> No.1854382

>>1854369

Darwin did a lot to advance the field at the time, but by modern standards he was a pretty shitty scientist.

>> No.1854385

>>1854374
Dr. B progressed gentic engineering greatly.
It sounds like you dont know much about scientists.

>> No.1854388

>>1854382
>>1854382
>>1854382
>>1854382
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>> No.1854389

Tesla wasn't a "scientist", he was an engineer. Also, no Da Vinci?

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Euclid and Euler, your list is sorely incomplete.

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>>1854359
i agree

and r hooke

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>saved a billion lives

HOLY SHIT!

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>Gauss
>Angry paranoid old man who shot down practically every theory, or claimed he did it first, that came his way
>Greatest

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Everybody forgets Faraday :(

>> No.1854409

>>1854392
>>Euclid was pure mathematics
>>Newton is far better than Euler

>> No.1854431

>>1854413
V=IR

>> No.1854444

I nominate Rutherford, sure some of his stuff was wrong, but he inferred the existence of protons and neutrons, and was the among the first to put electrons outside of the nucleus (shat in Thomson's face)

>> No.1854448

>>1854382
Nope, he was awesome. On the Origin of Species was fucking amazing, and it's amazing that so much of it still holds up today.

>> No.1854453

>>1854382
THE GUY FUCKING INVENTED EVOLUTION YOU IDIOT.

>> No.1854460

>>1854453
LOL no

>> No.1854462

Well here's the open question, then: What makes a great scientist? Just because somebody happened to have the right idea at the right time, or happened to be the first to combine all the pieces? I think a great scientist is someone who spends life experimenting and asking questions without getting tied obsessed with being right. Folks like Feynman, Tesla, Faraday.

Scientists. Seekers.

Darwin was just the right guy at the right moment.

>> No.1854583

>>1854342
Maxwell, Gauss and Newton all deserve a place.
Tesla was more of an engineer, but he would be in the greatest engineer tier. Feynman should be one tier lower, and for bastardizing physics, Einstein should be on the troll tier

>> No.1854608

Tesla was a man who exaggerated many conclusions and basically an inventor
>>1854583
obviously you have never had modern physics if you think einstein is a troll...whatever you mean by that

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>> No.1854823

>>1854462
apparently it doesn't matter what you do, just how famous you get that's all. look at Pythagoras theorem, 6 civilisations discovered it 100's of years before him, but he got the name tied to it woota?