Author Topic: Who's your favorite scientist ? (Read 13484 times)

Contro · « **on:** September 16, 2017, 03:45 AM »

I need to make a list of favorite scientists of the members of DC. Can you help me ?

mouser · « **Reply #1 on:** September 16, 2017, 03:48 AM »

Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr

4wd · « **Reply #2 on:** September 16, 2017, 06:36 AM »

Not strictly a scientist but it would have to be: Nikola Tesla^w

rgdot · « **Reply #3 on:** September 16, 2017, 08:22 AM »

Tesla is not considered a scientist?

Stephen Hawking
John Stewart Bell
Max Born

cranioscopical · « **Reply #4 on:** September 16, 2017, 10:52 AM »

Paracelsus
Isaac Newton
Max Planck
Galileo Galilei

Shades · « **Reply #5 on:** September 16, 2017, 01:41 PM »

Leonardo da Vinci
Nicolas Tesla
Albert Einstein
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Joseph von Fraunhofer

4wd · « **Reply #6 on:** September 17, 2017, 01:53 AM »

Tesla is not considered a scientist?
-rgdot (September 16, 2017, 08:22 AM)

Not what I said.

He was first and foremost an engineer.

Contro · « **Reply #7 on:** September 17, 2017, 04:31 AM »

Tesla is not considered a scientist?
-rgdot (September 16, 2017, 08:22 AM)

Not what I said.

He was first and foremost an engineer.
-4wd (September 17, 2017, 01:53 AM)

Ejem. I am an engineer too. So I am Tesla !!!!!!!!

rgdot · « **Reply #8 on:** September 17, 2017, 07:30 AM »

Tesla is not considered a scientist?
-rgdot (September 16, 2017, 08:22 AM)

Not what I said.

He was first and foremost an engineer.
-4wd (September 17, 2017, 01:53 AM)

I have a university Physics degree and that was the first time I have heard Tesla described that way (with or without 'not strictly'). That's why I posted

nosh · « **Reply #9 on:** September 18, 2017, 11:54 AM »

Carl Sagan.

Giampy · « **Reply #10 on:** September 18, 2017, 02:34 PM »

Those who defeated or contributed to defeat awful diseases: Pasteur, Fleming, Salk and Sabin, Jenner, etc...

ConstanceJill · « **Reply #11 on:** September 19, 2017, 04:43 AM »

Hi there ^^

I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be mistaken but… shouldn't the title be "Who's your favo(u)rite scientist?" instead of "What's […]"?

4wd · « **Reply #12 on:** September 19, 2017, 06:03 AM »

I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be mistaken but… shouldn't the title be "Who's your favo(u)rite scientist?" instead of "What's […]"?
-ConstanceJill (September 19, 2017, 04:43 AM)

Depends, everyone following could have got it wrong and he really wants disciplines.

ie.
Q:What's your favourite scientist?
A: A physicist

Contro · « **Reply #13 on:** September 19, 2017, 07:44 AM »

Hi there ^^

I'm not a native English speaker, so I might be mistaken but… shouldn't the title be "Who's your favo(u)rite scientist?" instead of "What's […]"?
-ConstanceJill (September 19, 2017, 04:43 AM)

I think you're right. But please tell me your favorites ones.

cranioscopical · « **Reply #14 on:** September 19, 2017, 02:05 PM »

Q:What's your favourite scientist?
A: A physicist
-4wd (September 19, 2017, 06:03 AM)

Gosh, I was foioled again!

But then again, Watt's mine.

4wd · « **Reply #15 on:** September 19, 2017, 07:57 PM »

Q:What's your favourite scientist?
A: A physicist
-4wd (September 19, 2017, 06:03 AM)

Gosh, I was foioled again!

But then again, Watt's mine.

-cranioscopical (September 19, 2017, 02:05 PM)

No need to get steamed up about it.

Shades · « **Reply #16 on:** September 19, 2017, 10:09 PM »

Q:What's your favourite scientist?
A: A physicist
-4wd (September 19, 2017, 06:03 AM)

Gosh, I was foioled again!

But then again, Watt's mine.

-cranioscopical (September 19, 2017, 02:05 PM)

"Power to you", Joule be saying next...

cranioscopical · « **Reply #17 on:** September 20, 2017, 11:06 AM »

"Power to you", Joule be saying next...
-Shades (September 19, 2017, 10:09 PM)

Well, if I have time but I'm only ohm faraday.

Contro · « **Reply #18 on:** September 24, 2017, 05:33 AM »

Up up up. I need more scientists !!!!!!!!

In short I will begin with Albert Einstein : the favorite until this moment 24.09.2017.11.29 of Mouser and Shades.

Is difficult to resume the life of anyone. But we have to. These witty quotes, epigrams, wisdom quotes may help.

Someday several of the persons in this forum will be remembered in the same way.

And for everyone will be an inspirational method reading the phrases of important - and not so important - persons.

Best Regards

MilesAhead · « **Reply #19 on:** September 24, 2017, 12:49 PM »

In the mid 1980s I worked for too short a time with this gentleman:
https://patents.just.../inventor/ethan-hoag

All I could find on search was patent info. No personal info. He did CO2 Laser Research. I assisted as an Electromechanical Tech. I enjoyed that time very much. In addition to intelligence and competence he had a sense of humor. I use past tense because I believe he was close to 70 when I worked with him.

If he was not a "Scientist" he was close enough for the girls I know.

Edit: On earlier searches I got about a dozen hits for CO2 Laser related patents. The link above is just the first.

mahendradesai · « **Reply #20 on:** September 28, 2017, 09:59 AM »

Charles Darwin

SteveT8 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 29, 2017, 05:31 AM »

Nikola Teslaw, Stephen Hawking

Contro · « **Reply #22 on:** September 29, 2017, 09:29 AM »

Charles Darwin
-mahendradesai (September 28, 2017, 09:59 AM)

Welcome to the forum !!!!!!!

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #23 on:** September 29, 2017, 06:43 PM »

I'm seconding etc Stephen Hawking. Also see he had a guest cameo role in Star Trek Next Generation!

Einstein is almost "too easy", possibly the most "over quoted" scientist (aka the abuse of E=MC^2 ), but with that modestly well known quote (I think) that problems cannot be solved at the same level that generated them. But also Einstein's Hair and that (hopefully legit) pic of him I think with his tongue out!

I don't know anything actually about Paracelsus but he was a Bad Guy on Warehouse 13 as one a rogue Warehouse Caretaker.

"Not Strictly a Scientist" is Scatman John, who famously used neuroscience to sidestep a terrible stutter to do some music, and I think James Earl Jones had speech problems too, and became Vader!

But then the surprise entry is, isn't Mouser a scientist!? Slight problems at the end of the thesis track, but we luv you!

kunkel321 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 14, 2018, 08:38 AM »

Richard Dawkins
Carl Sagan