Who is your favorite scientist?
I can't spell this one greek,he was the father of calculus.If he wasn't killed by the stupid romans,they say in 1800 we would have gone to the moon,and right now to several star systems
Seeing as astrophysics is a particular area of interest Neil de Grasse Tyson and Carl Sagan are constant favourites. But I also love watching public talks by Michio Kaku, Bill Nye, and Sam Harris.
There's a treasure trove of that on YouTube, you may already know.
Carl Sagan. He somehow combined science with a feeling of connectedness to the universe that has in many ways shaped my outlook on life.
Cannot believe I missed good'ol Carl in my list below !!!!!!!! He was a great guy, also gone too soon
Marie Curie, won 2 Nobel prizes, in Physics and then Chemistry. Unheard of for a woman in the early 20th century.
Charles Hapgood, he tried to tell us all,but was shot down by others.
too bad...
Hendricks Lorentz & Henry Poincare
Poincare, brilliant and complex.... He could've beat Einstein on relativity but got caught up in his own cumbersome ways. I remember trying to read a book in my younger days and I was so pissed because within half a paragraph I was already lost in the train of thought..... Of course the main reason was that I needed to learn much more to get the most out of his work. Good one and thanks for the memories !!!!!
Richard Feynman.
He had a healthy attitude towards race. As a member of the Labour party I regard the recent accusations of antisemitism as primarily generated by the Israeli lobby and the right wing inside the party. Race is tearing the party apart, despite being the least racist party in the UK.
My view is that can never be any place to racism, be that negative or positive.
Feynman refused the "Jewish" science prize because he regarded such a thing as ridiculous. Such positive racism does nothing but causes suspicion and resentment and reifies concepts of race as if they are useful and valid ways to characterise people.
@chazwin I am going to have to look it up. The Jewish science prize.... I have a handful of books, biographies mostly, and of course the ones he wrote himself and none of those ring a bell on this prize or a stand on racism. He was a very peculiar guy, there is no doubt about that.... My other comnent is that (of course I could be wrong and I will let you be the judge) your posting seems more about UK politics than Feynman himself..... the ball is back on your court
Ahhh... Too many....
1.- Richard Feynman, amazing dude with an incredible philosophy and stories, some really fun, some really good, some very sad.
2.- Albert Einstein, of course. Everything has been said
3.- Schockley.. every technological development we enjoy today thanks to semiconductors (transistors then microprocessors) is because of this guy that history will punish for one radical stand
4.- Maxwell... The Scottish dude who's life was cut so damn short and yet managed to acomplish more than a lot of the best
5.- Newton.. same as Eintein, no introduction required
6.- Hawking... Recently departed. Some negativity here and I wonder if those who say he was a fiasco have contributed to a thousenth of what he accomplished even with the cards given
I could go on but.... There are plenty of achievers that make me want to find the way to travel back in time and live my life again and again....
Charles Darwin was the greatest scientist of all time!