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Greatest Scientist
slothpomba:
My vote goes to this guy.
He might of not discovered anything that revolutionary but he saved a shitload of people and almost no one knew he existed.
"(Because of Borlaug) Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply."
Mao:
If we are talking about the greatest paradigm shift, you should probably put down Copernicus and Galileo.
Bozo:
--- Quote from: Mao on June 19, 2011, 11:26:04 pm ---If we are talking about the greatest paradigm shift, you should probably put down Copernicus and Galileo.
--- End quote ---
+1
schnappy:
First instincts make me veer into Newton, but his work was only timeless because the social circumstances of his time allowed him to prosper ('modern' religion evolved in Britain - much more secular than pre-Renaissaince). Don't go crediting all of calculus to Newton, it was Leibnitz who did a lot of it - yes they both did it at the same time oblivious to each other, but leibnitz did a lot of the heavy lifting. Though that's a judgemental statement, it's all relative and Newton deserves some credit for it.
Einstein was great in that he jumped out of the realm of intuition and ruined physics being easy and fun forever.\
I'd be inclined to put my vote in Galileo... because it was his development of Copernicus' work that gave Newton a jolly good start. (Though I'm not sure of this?)
/0:
I vote Newton. Despite wasting most of his ferocious intellect on bible studies, in his spare time he still managed to revolutionise physics and mathematics.
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