/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.6586114]

Who is your favorite scientist and why is it Mr. Degrasse?

[Anonymous No.6586129]

>not preferring feynman
>not preferring jacob barnett

[Anonymous No.6586132]

>>6586114
>scientist
yes, because Mr. Tyson is involved in some very active research these days.

[Anonymous No.6587965]

>>6586132
being a paid lobbyist is research!!!!

[Anonymous No.6587992]

>>6586114

[Anonymous No.6588062]

>>6586114

All my favourite scientists are dead.

The only scientists worth building 'cults' around are dead.

Take your shitty pop-sci frontman scientists and stick em up your ass.

[Anonymous No.6588089]

>the general public will always hold Black Science Man to be more important and intelligent than people such as James Clerk Maxwell, Pierre-Simon Laplace, or Joseph Fourier

[Anonymous No.6588656]

>>6586114
Milanković gave two fundamental contributions to global science. The first contribution is the "Canon of the Earth’s Insolation", which characterizes the climates of all the planets of the Solar system. The second contribution is the explanation of Earth's long-term climate changes caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles. This explained the ice ages occurring in the geological past of the Earth, as well as the climate changes on the Earth which can be expected in the future. He founded planetary climatology by calculating temperatures of the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere as well as the temperature conditions on planets of the inner Solar system, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Moon, as well as the depth of the atmosphere of the outer planets. He demonstrated the interrelatedness of celestial mechanics and the Earth sciences, and enabled consistent transition from celestial mechanics to the Earth sciences and transformation of descriptive sciences into exact ones.

[Anonymous No.6588663]

>>6586114
Brian Greene (for personal reasons).

[Anonymous No.6588688]

>>6588663
He never loved you y'know. He was just using you.

[Anonymous No.6588694]

>>6588688
It's just that I read his books as a kid and they really inspired me to pursue science (which I still do). An example of the effect pop-sci should have and why it shouldn't be frowned upon as much as /sci/ usually does.

[Anonymous No.6588695]

>>6586114
Mother fuckin Cedric Villani.
He got a Fields medal in 2010

[Anonymous No.6588697]

>>6588695
>Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.6588699]

>>6588697

is he even human? look at that face, looks alien to me

also I bet he drowns in math-pussy

[Anonymous No.6588701]

>>6586114
>that quoted text

How the fuck can such a massive raging statist make such an eloquent case for liberty?

[Anonymous No.6588707]

>>6588699
He's somewhat cute.
He's maaried with a biologist, they have two children.
Oh, and he always wear a spider.

[Anonymous No.6588811]

>>6588707
noice

[Anonymous No.6589718]

>>6586114

I'm surprised nobody said Einstein yet. Now I'm sad.

[Anonymous No.6589722]

>>6589718
jew/10
would not bring back to life

[Anonymous No.6589725]

>>6586114
brcuase somehow there are more stolen bikes in his garrage then stars in the universe

[Anonymous No.6589728]

>>6589722
>>6588811
>>6588699
>>6588688
nice dubs!

[Anonymous No.6589732]

>>6589725

5/10

[Anonymous No.6589734]

>>6586132
I don't get it, he wrote research paper as much as a graduate student did in a few months. Because he published a few amount of work and he's in his middle-age, what has he been doing the entire time? Did he give up science a few months he earned his physics degree?

[Anonymous No.6589737]

>>6589734
look at all dem awards, and he hasent done shit

[Anonymous No.6590079]

>>6589734

He's the director of the Hayden Planetarium, in addition he's also engaged in science advocacy on a daily basis.

Asking why he isn't engaged in research is like asking why High School teachers aren't engaged in research - it's not his business.

P.S. A little known fact to the side - he's been supporting PETA.

[Anonymous No.6590103]

My favourite is Tesla because he invented electricity

[Anonymous No.6590187]

Because I actually feel like being serious in this silly troll thread I present to you

>J. Willard Gibbs

Greatest American scientist ever to live

[Anonymous No.6590452]

>>6588089
>implying black science man isn't our prophet

[Anonymous No.6590499]

>>6586114

[Anonymous No.6590983]

>>6588089
I blame Jews and cultural marxists.

[Anonymous No.6591412]

>>6587992
>solar system
>planets, satellites n whateva revolving around the sun
>the sun
>one star
>one

yeah some solar systems involve two or possibly more stars but yeah a solar system doesn't contain unimaginable numbers of stars. i don't even know if einstein said that and i'd be surprised with him wording that so carelessly.

[Anonymous No.6591437]

>>6590187
>Gibbs is "greatest American scientist ever to live"

>not Feynman
>not Feynman
>not Feynman
>not Feynman

what are you drunk right now or something?

[Anonymous No.6591448]

>>6591412
You're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.6591449]

I do not like Neil. Man sure as hell knows how to make people interested about space n shit, though.

[Anonymous No.6591478]

>>6591448
you can't make a claim like that and not explain man

[Anonymous No.6592311]

>>6591437

So Feynman is the new Tesla?

[Anonymous No.6592422]

>>6591412
>That joke is ridiculous!
>If the star was a single star then it would be a unity of a single star, not just <span class="math">a[/spoiler] star.
>The punchline is clearly that this joke implies not a single star, but it's absurd that Mr. Einstein would have in fact not realized that the sun is actually just <span class="math">one[/spoiler] star and not <span class="math">a single star[/spoiler]
>I mean, I could go on and on, but it's clear that some solar systems don't even have a sun, much less a star--how could someone like Einstein not know this? If there were more than one sun there there be more than one star, but if it were more than one star there would not be <span class="math">a[/spoiler] solar system, but solar<span class="math">is[/spoiler] system with more than a single star
>Ok, just to make a point, consider a single star whose number quantity is one, then it would follow that the unity of all such one stars...
>....
>...with this I believe I have shown the absurdity of the statement and I'm therefore led to believe that if einstein said that then i'd be surprised with him wording that so carelessly

And this is how you know you have a /sci/entist in the room.

[Anonymous No.6592468]

>>6592311
Tesla wasn't American though.
>inb4 "he lived in America for some one and therefore he's American"

[Anonymous No.6592471]

>>6592468
>some one
that should say "some time"

[Anonymous No.6592479]

>>6592422
pic made me lol

[Anonymous No.6594322]

>>6590079
>supporting PETA
I know nobody is perfect, but that's fucking embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.6594440]

>>6594322
I take offence in this a little...

[Anonymous No.6594480]

>>6592479
Why?
Shes a perfect example of Schrödinger's wave equation.

[Anonymous No.6595802]

>>6590499
lel

[Anonymous No.6595946]

>>6586114
His charisma is unmatched, and much needed.

[Anonymous No.6595950]

Kaku and Tyson are shit tier faces for the plebs.

Personally, Wigner.

[Anonymous No.6595952]

I'm gonna go with Enrico Fermi. First atomic pile, very likeable, and he had awesome lectures.

[Anonymous No.6595975]

>>6595950
>"Personally, Wigner."
>believed quantum-mechanical wavefunction collapse was caused by consciousness

Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.6596058]

>>6595952
>Enrico Fermi

Read it all. Very good read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi

[Anonymous No.6596076]

>>6596058
I know, right? And fairly unsung in comparison to other physicists who hog all the limelight.

My second favorite would have to be Asimov. He's got a very clear way of explaining things, is particularly humorous, and was actually very environmentally minded.