29-04-2005 01:14									#1
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Albert Einstien: Relativity, Equivalence of matter and energy

Watson & Crick: Structure of DNA

Tuzo Wilson: Plate Tectonics

Ernst Rutherford: atomic structure

Erwin Shrodinger & Co.: Quantum Mechanics

Thedosious Dobzansky: Population Biology & Genetics

Ernst Mayr: Evolutionary Biology (peripatric specialtion, to be specific)

	29-04-2005 01:27									#2
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Richard Feynman. Duh.

	29-04-2005 01:28									#3
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Einstien. He had the whole universe in his head.

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Professor Frink

You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.

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Hawking is great because of what he does to popularize science and the amazing pattern of thought.

Robert Oppenheimer definitely deserves a mention. Wernher von Braun is brilliant and influental.

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I think Beaker was great too.

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quote: Originally posted by Solver Robert Oppenheimer definitely deserves a mention.

BOOM!

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No-one's mentioned Dirac yet?

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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist No-one's mentioned Dirac yet?

He would be under "Shrodinger & Co."

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Who discovered the structure of DNA?

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Someone most likely named Fred DNA

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I see a decided lack of chemists and and an over representation of life sciences, IMO.

I submit:

Wallace Hume Carothers - Inventor Nylon and Neoprene

Roy J. Plunkett - Inventor of Teflon

Otto Bayer - Inventor of polyurethane

Reginald Gibson and Eric Fawcett - LDPE (polyethylene)

etc.

	29-04-2005 02:11									#13
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What the heck is polyurethane?

	29-04-2005 02:14									#14
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Thermoplastics used in most molded plastics. Also artificial rubber. Also the basis of foam for furniture, mattresses etc.

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the guys who discovered Polyethene, the basis of all plastics... (Didn't they discover that in Manchester?)

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quote: Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe Thermoplastics used in most molded plastics. Also artificial rubber. Also the basis of foam for furniture, mattresses etc.

Condoms .

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Whoever invented 'the pill'.

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The inventors of the transistor and IC should get some mention.

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quote: Originally posted by Ned Who discovered the structure of DNA?

James Watson and Francis Crick (although mostly they stole the results of Rosalind Franklin)

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quote: Originally posted by Ned The inventors of the transistor and IC should get some mention.

Bardeen, Schockley, and Brittain for the transistor.

Kilby and Noyce for the IC

Just FYI. Those aren't my votes.

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I don't think there's been any great scientists. Everything major was inspired, dreamed up via the "out of the arse" approach to discovery, and was then proved later by someone else, not deduced experimentally. All of modern physics is made up, most of modern biology was just a matter of waiting for some engineer to invent a better microscope, and chemistry never helped anyone do anything except perhaps explode faster. Everything important in the last century is either maths or engineering.