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Anonymous Wed Mar 21 23:13:52 2012 No.4491785 [Reply] [Original]

Why were so many great scientists born in the 1900s?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 21 23:14:00 2012 No.4491788 There's even more today. Why we remember so many is because a frontier in physics was being cracked open (Relativity and quantum mechanics)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 21 23:14:00 2012 No.4491789 Panda unrelated?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 21 23:15:15 2012 No.4491791 low-hanging fruit and an age-structure of achievement that was artificially low due to new fields and new techniques.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 21 23:15:15 2012 No.4491792 Science wasn't being limited by religious nonsense. Also, new forms of science with culturally relevant developments (nuclear devices, rockets, etc)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 21 23:16:15 2012 No.4491793 100 years is alot of time. You only learn about the great ones.