[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?

[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.

[bigbob]

Algore x15

[Patriot365]

Where is Hippocrates, the father of Western Medicine?

[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.

[Kirkwood]

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

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Too many crackers on this list!

[The_Reader_David]

Newton definitely belongs on the list, and after consideration, I'll grudgingly put him in the top spot. However, I'm given to pointing out to my calculus students that I'm not sure which of the inventors (or discovers, depending on your favored philosophy of mathematics) of the calculus was more brilliant. They both produced the calculus to do physics. Newton then blundered off and did physics, giving us the "clockwork universe" of classical physics. Leibniz started worrying about the relationship between the observer and the system observed -- the very thing that Newton got wrong and which in two different ways undid his classical physics at the turn of the 20th century both as it applied to the very large and very fast (relativity) and the very small (quantum mechanics) -- and instead wrote The Monadology.

But Aristotle? With his physics in which arrows fly straight then suddenly fall straight down when they run out "impetus"? How could he get that wrong??? He was the tutor to Alexander the Great and surely saw arrows flying in their parabolic arcs as the approximately correct physics Newton gave us predicts. He wasn't blind like Homer, how did he get that wrong? He also got quantification over empty families wrong in his formulation of logic

[SES1066]

Sir Isaac Newton, whom I agree is one of the defining greats in science, acknowledged his debt to his (and our) predecessors with the statement; "If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders [sic] of Giants."

In that light, I'd put in the top category Euclid of Alexandria (c. 300BC), the father of Geometry and a predecessor to another needed for inclusion, Archimedes of Syracuse (280-212BC)! For millennia, children have learned Euclid's Elements and from his books has come REASONED learning, a prerequisite of all science. And if the above 2 ancient Greeks are not enough, let's add Pythagoras of Samos (570-495BC) as a candidate for the title of "Father of Mathematics!

Remember, there is a reason for Western Civilization being called a Greco-Roman-Judaic Civilization. And when you consider that all of these men did their work in an era preceding Indo-Arabic Numbers, it is even more impressive!

[Hoodat]

Any Top Ten list without Robert Hooke’s name on it is worthless.

[canuck_conservative]

How can you rate one of these scientist as “the best”? It’s like saying, which one song is “the best ever”?

They’re all good, all made critical contributions to the body of human knowledge.

And science doesn’t exist in a vacuum, don’t forget all the practical people that put the science discoveries to work - Tesla, Edison, even the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford.

[SeaHawkFan]

Aristotle and Darwin really weren’t even scientists.

[Hot Tabasco]

So the guy who invented beer doesn’t even get an honorable mention.......sad.

[Billthedrill]

Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleev. That periodic table? Consider that there was no such thing as atomic theory when he did it. Mind-boggling.

[Gay State Conservative]

Where's algore...and Michael Moore?

[wbarmy]

Sir Isaac Newton personally considered himself a theologian and spent a much larger amount of his time studying scripture. One book, discusses the huge religious library he owned and how much time he spent studying religious texts and biblical history.

“There are more sure proofs of authenticity in the Bible than in any secular history. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. I can take my telescope and look millions of miles into space; but I can go away to my room and in prayer get nearer to God and Heaven than I can when assisted by all the telescopes of Earth!”
-Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

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.

And they say that now in Paris, France, even as we speak..Louis Pasteur has devised a new vaccine that will obliterate anthrax once and for all.

...Think of it, gentlemen. Hoof-and-Mouth disease a thing of the past!

Never mind that S—t, here comes Mongo!