Who is your favorite scientist of all time?

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Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

There have been many giants in the world of science, but it was Darwin who set us free.

Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Dear Roy Roy,

Of all time...Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), the Hungarian physician who tried to introduce antiseptic procedures. This was a time when childbed fever was common, and one out of three women who contracted it were dying. Semmelweis found that simple hand-washing in chlorinated lime would prevent all these deaths...deaths by contagion from the doctors' hands.

But germ theory was unknown then, and no one would listen. Semmelweis died age 47, a few days after commitment to an insane asylum and beaten by guards there.

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Also, Nikola Tesla, Sir James Jeans, Erwin Schrödinger.                                Here is Semmelweis:

Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered

For me, it's a toss up between Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson. I could listen to either one for hours.

Gokula krishnan Profile
Gokula krishnan answered

Albert Einstein

otis campbell Profile
otis campbell answered

Tesla

Tris Fray Potter Profile

Stephen Hawking.  I admire his work so much, it's just so amazing what he's discovered about the universe, and I think it's pretty awesome that he's been able to do all that considering the emotional strain that must be/have been on him.

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Got to give you a special star for THAT nomination, Tris Fray Potter
Tris Fray Potter
Tris Fray Potter commented
Thanks. I love quantum physics, and I'm a big advocate.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Dear Tris Fray, I just went to your profile and I wish for you to indeed do fascinating scientific study with NASA.
Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

Hard to chose objectively, because there are so many; and each contribution gave great insight into the workings of natural reality.

But if there are any people here who are studying any of the sciences besides biology, rest assured that biology is only one of the sciences and its value lies in it's specific formal object.

Study the queen of the sciences---Philosophy---and you will learn what a formal object is.

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Tom Jackson commented
@John McCann

One think I've learned about you, John, is that the statements that you make outside your field of expertise seldom illuminate the truth.

But I applaud and encourage your efforts---please keep trying.
John McCann
John McCann commented
One THING I've learned about you is that any statement you make is a lie.

Bye.
Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
Oh, John---I'll bet that you wish that you could dismiss me as easily as you have dismissed God.

I'll be interested to imagine what happens when God finally lets you know that you haven't been any more successful at dismissing Him than you have been at dismissing me.

Fortunately, you will find He has a great sense of humor about such attempts.

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