/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4215869]

Who is your favorite Scientist /sci/? Mine is NikolA Tesla.

[Anonymous No.4215929]

>>4215869
Mine is Nikola Tesla as well, my friend.
Pure genius.

[Sage No.4216028]

Wasn't he more of an engineer ? Not implying that it's a bad thing. I would say Carl Sagan for inspirational purposes but on purely science, I'd say Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein (Almost included Hawking here). Both figured out things that are my favourite parts of science today and were really thinking outside the box.

Pic summarizes my feelings on why academia is so fukken awesome.

[Anonymous No.4216030]

>>4216028
God damn Sage, I always forget it there

[Anonymous No.4216033]

John Bardeen.
"Normal" pleasant dude. Helped lay down the theory for transistors and no-one knows who he is. You may recognize him from such webcomics as SMBC

[Anonymous No.4216219]

>>4216028
I'd say he was an Engineer and a Scientist as he didn't just design the structures.

[Anonymous No.4216226]

>>4216028
That kind of opinion is usually held by people who simply haven't thought about such issues deeply. Usually. (I don't know the man personally.)

People label positions so that the entire argument doesn't have to develop every time someone wants to know your opinion on something. Names in this case are shortcuts to a conversation, rather than boxes constraining thought. There is a rich history of arguing over philosophies; to have to rehash such historical discussions every time you want to know what someone things would be pointlessly retarded. By labeling common positions, one can proceed to the meat of a discussion directly, if one is to be had, because the preliminaries are largely covered.

Of course there are always nuances, but this only needs mentioning to those who say, "Oh, you believe X? So you must believe Y Z and AABB too you idiot!" (We call them republicans.)

[Anonymous No.4216230]

>favorite scientist
>an engineer

[Anonymous No.4216239]

it may not be very original, but Einstein. he:
>proved atoms exist
>reinterpreted planks formula and really started quantum mechanics by proving electromagnetic fields must be quantized.
>improved relativity by making electrodynamics and classical mechanics compatible by making special relativity.
>solved the problem newton and everyone after him had that only inertial frames were the same by discovering the principle of equivalence in general relativity.
and most importantly:
>found out why shit in a cup gathers in the middle when you stir it.

he was the link between all we-know-everything physics of the 1800s and the we-dont-know-shit physics of the 1900s

[Anonymous No.4216396]

>>4216226
Took me some time to realize you were talking about my picture, heh. In a way I agree with you but in the scientific context I don't. Because Tyson says being a scientist is in a way special compared to other -ists and -isms. Liberalism, conservatism, marxism are collections of similiar ideas and thoughts. Science is a way of doing stuff, way of aquiring knowledge in a way that we all agree (little simplified, of course we have many theories on one idea etc) but it's a method and not a bunch of ideas. It's not important that sun is mostly hydrogen and helium but the way we came up with that idea. Everyone should have equal rights is the key concept of liberalism and the idea is more important then the ways we came to that conclusion. When doing science, if you allow the expression, one can easily follow the path other scientists have taken and come to the same conclusion "Oh yes, Sun is this and that".

That's my view of the matter and of course I'm not speaking for anyone but hopefully it clarified.

[Anonymous No.4216417]

Norman Borlaug

Some of us wouldn't be here without this man

[Anonymous No.4216424]

> hurr earthquake machines and death raus
> science
no, Tesla was a lunatic

[Anonymous No.4216445]

Rupert Sheldrake. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know shit about science.

[Anonymous No.4216446]

>>4215869
Dalton

you niggas have no clue what you're talking about

[Anonymous No.4216449]

John Slater

[Anonymous No.4216457]

>>4216417
>implying a world with more people is preferable

[Anonymous No.4216461]

>>4216424
AC power and induction motor

Ignore Hipster views when it comes to Tesla

[Anonymous No.4216484]

>>4215869
<----this guy

[Anonymous No.4218385]

Rosalind Franklin

inb4 faggot

[Harriet No.4218419]

>>4215869
>Mine is NikolA Tesla.
reported

[Aquila !!gAQL6Rry0wi No.4218424]

Faraday, man. Can't go wrong with him.

[Anonymous No.4218436]

>>4216461
>he did not invent AC
and you cannot deny despite being brilliant he was also a massive bullshiter.

[Anonymous No.4218440]

J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr.

[Anonymous No.4218441]

Richard Feynman was a pretty cool guy... He's quite my favourite

[Anonymous No.4218739]

Gordan Freeman.

[Anonymous No.4218746]

Purely on scientific contribution: Newton
Personal favorite: Tesla, brofist OP
Semi related, what's /sci/'s take on the Tunguska theory regarding Tesla?

[Anonymous No.4218770]

>>4215869
Holy shit Tesla was an Asatru!

[Anonymous No.4218893]

Michio Kaku

The only scientist who seem to know what he's talking about

[Anonymous No.4218895]

>>4218739

Lol wtf is that guy doing with the torque wrench? He's holding it wrong if he's planning on tightening something.

Photo-op maybe?

Not understanding the printed arrow either. Scientists can't into engineering :(

[Anonymous No.4219600]

>>4218895
Those bolts may have left-handed threads.
As to the arrow, I've worked on some multi-million dollar machines before and the higher the price of failure, the clearer the markings and more detailed the documentation.

[Anonymous No.4219631]

>>4218893

[Anonymous No.4219655]

>>4218895
>Scientists can't into engineering :(

Implying it is hard to be a homosexual