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/sci/ i have to do a college level term paper on any scientist, and I really want a cool one. Could you guys recommend any badass scientists?

ps- tesla is taken

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>> No.2407863

Feynman. Hands down.

>> No.2407870

George Coyne

Fucking badass priest who doesn't afraid of evolution or old-age universe

>> No.2407885

Title your paper: "Charles fucking Babbage: Crazy, British, Dead."

>> No.2407887

Tesla. He was an odd guy.

>> No.2407899

>>2407863
This. If you don't choose him, you must read Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, regardless.

>> No.2407904

Alan Turing

>> No.2407906

http://www.oddee.com/item_96484.aspx

>> No.2407911

Timothy Leary

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Haggins von Crazy

>> No.2407917

>>2407887
I second this Anon.

>> No.2407921

Howard Hughes

>> No.2407922

Turing

Be sure to mention him being chemically castrated due to TOO SEXY

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>>2407911

hell yeah.
alfred hoffman too
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>> No.2407936

op here, thanks for the suggestions!

>> No.2407990

paul hewitt

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Ludwig Boltzmann

>> No.2408096

I did mine on Georg Cantor.

Jussayin'

>> No.2408108

Badass: Tesla
If you want an easy scientist, do Darwin.

>> No.2408111

Dirac

>> No.2408219

Oppenheimer; Bonus points if you write about how he killed innocents and why thats bad.

>> No.2408224

Feynman duh

>> No.2408226

>>2407904
yes

>> No.2408246

Feynman
Planck
Gell-Mann

>> No.2408269

Richard Dawkins

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>> No.2408293

Dmitri Mendeleev

>> No.2408294

how many pages?

>> No.2408316

Which kind do you like?
brain power? interesting story? influential discovery? easiest to do? polymaths?

>> No.2408330

>>2407911
>>2407911
>>2407911

This.

>> No.2408334

Feynman, because he played the bongos and didn't afraid of anything.

>> No.2408337

http://fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm

>> No.2408339

You can talk about Watson and his lulzy racism

>> No.2408342

>>2407863
>>2407887
>>2407904
OR: Gauss, Niggah's got a bunch of bosons to his name, you don't even have a fermion.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

>> No.2408344

Yourself. Make shit up. Awesome shit.

>> No.2408353

Barry Marshall

"I'll fucking show you"

>> No.2408358

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>> No.2408361

>>2408342
Do you even know what words are? There are four know bosons, W, Z, Gluon, and Photon. Even including theoretical bosons, the Higgs and the Graviton, Gauss is never mentioned.

>> No.2408362

You're all neglecting the biggest troll scientist .

Alexander Shulgin

Hired by DEA and writes a drug cookbook in their labs,

Inventor of the synthesis of MDMA, DMT, other psilocybins as well.

Was also in the navy. I would do it on him.

>> No.2408388

euler

>> No.2408389

If you want a badass guy.

Werner Forssmann

Put a catheder in his own heart and then X-ray'd himself with the help of 1 nurse.

>> No.2408429

Mendeleev or Planck...

>> No.2408431

>>2408361
>mfw i vaigely remembered that he definatly did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_boson
>mfw 'ge' != 'ss'
>my face is crying tears of wrong

>> No.2408438

>>2408429
Mendeleev was a hack. Planck's a pretty cool guy, though.

>> No.2408454

>>2408431
That article doesn't mention Gauss a single time.