The Tuesday List - Top 10 Greatest Scientists Of All Time

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[Scoutmaster]

Top 10 Greatest Scientists

A list of the top 10 scientists of all time.

1. Sir Isaac Newton. (1642-1726)

Newton was a polymath who made investigations into a whole range of subjects including mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy. In his Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, he laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining law of gravity and the Laws of Motion.

2. Louis Pasteur. (1822 – 1895)

Contributed greatly towards the advancement of medical sciences developing cures for rabies, anthrax and other infectious diseases. Also enabled process of pasteurisation to make milk safer to drink. Probably saved more lives than any other person.

3. Galileo. (1564 – 1642)

Creating one of the first modern telescope, Galileo revolutionised our understanding of the world successfully proving the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around. His work Two New Sciences laid groundwork for science of Kinetics and strength of materials.

4. Marie Curie. (1867 – 1934)

Polish physicist and chemist. Discovered radiation and helped to apply it in the field of X ray. She won Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Physics.

5. Albert Einstein. (1879 – 1955)

Revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity. Won Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) for his discovery of the Photoelectric effect, which formed basis of Quantum Theory.

6. Charles Darwin. (1809 – 1882)

Developed theory of evolution against a backdrop of disbelief and scepticism. Collected evidence over 20 years, and published conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859).

7. Otto Hahn. (1879-1968)Chemist who discovered nuclear fission (1939). Pioneering scientist in the field of radio-chemistry. Discovered radio-active elements and nuclear isomerism (1921). Awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1944).

8. Nikola Tesla (1856 –1943)

Work on electro-magnetism and AC current. Credited with many patents from electricity to radio transmission.

9. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

Made great strides in understanding electro-magnetism. His research in electricity and kinetics, laid foundation for quantum physics. Einstein said of Maxwell, “The work of James Clerk Maxwell changed the world forever.”

10. Aristotle. 384BC – 322BC

Great early Greek scientist who made many researches in the natural sciences including botany, zoology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and meteorology, geometry.

[Scoutmaster]

The Tuesday List does not reflect my opinion. Lines are now open for discussion.

Here's a suggestion, given the fact nobody is going to agree with the Biography Online list.

Create and post your ordered list of the Top Fifteen Scientists of All Time.

[A CA Guy]

How many liberal climate scientists with leaked Emails of their falsifying data regarding their research on that list?

[Da Coyote]

Beg pardon, but “climate scientist” is an oxymoron.

[bkepley]

I would certainly rate Maxwell above Tesla and probably above most of the others.

[MNDude]

No Leonardo da Vinci? No Thomas Edison? No Copernicus?

[Doctor 2Brains]

Where’s the peanut butter guy? Carver. When I was in school, it was pretty clear that he was almost exactly like God Almighty himself, only better. This list is bogus.

[Scoutmaster]

Nope. And no Archimedes.

Which three scientists would you remove from the list to include da Vinci, Edison, and Copernicus?

[RJS1950]

Copernicus should be there, maybe instead of Tesla. I think Tesla, Edison and da Vinci were more along the lines of great inventors who took the knowledge of the great scientists and applied it to practical uses.

[Scoutmaster]

George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. He developed a lot of other uses for the peanut, but don’t give him credit for your PB&J.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Well, considering that human life would simply not be possible without him (at least that’s what they told us in school), giving him credit for Skippy is the least we owe the man.

[bigbob]

Algore x15

[Fiji Hill]

If a white person had invented peanut butter, would his name be known to every school child?

[Patriot365]

Where is Hippocrates, the father of Western Medicine?

[uncommonsense]

"No Leonardo da Vinci? No Thomas Edison? No Copernicus?"

HA! Those were the exact 3 that I wondered about...! Also the dude who came up with the Zero.

[yarddog]

Before 1900 90% of deaths were caused by infectious diseases. Now it is less than 10%. Some credit is due to Sir
Alexander Fleming.

[InterceptPoint]

I would certainly rate Maxwell above Tesla and probably above most of the others.
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Me too. Tesla was a bright guy but more engineer than scientist.

[MNDude]

“Also the dude who came up with the Zero.”

Why? That guy invented nothing!

[Kirkwood]

I knew a physicist who actually worked with Curie. He wasn’t that impressed with her. He spoke highly of Bohr though.

[sportutegrl]

My nomination would be Philo T. Farnsworth.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Too many crackers on this list!