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.

[Hot Tabasco]

The guy who let you store the beer (Pasteur) IS on the list.

So he invented the refrigerator too?

[BillM]

Nope, ‘Pasteurization’ but I guess you’re funning me!

[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]

[COBOL2Java]

Too many crackers on this list!

Without the guy who invented peanut butter?! Shameful!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

yeah, but being good enough to have a screw named after you - that’s good livin’

[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!

[PA Engineer]

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

They are on the same list as Ptolemy. They used their CO2 theory to support precession.

[dfwgator]

#48 is for you.

[Scoutmaster]

And Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeleev didn’t win the Nobel Prize.

[Holdem Or Foldem]

Five main points of Dalton's atomic theory Elements are made of extremely small particles called atoms. Atoms of a given element are identical in size, mass, and other properties; atoms of different elements differ in size, mass, and other properties. Atoms cannot be subdivided, created, or destroyed. Atoms of different elements combine in simple whole-number ratios to form chemical compounds. In chemical reactions, atoms are combined, separated, or rearranged.Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808)

[Holdem Or Foldem]

Sorry, I tried a new way of posting and it did not post as I thought I had it arranged. The bottom line is that John Dalton had Mendeleev beat by almost 60 years withe his table of elements. It was very primitive but useful. Dalton is regarded as the father of “modern” atomic theory and did his work in the first decade of the nineteenth century.

[Billthedrill]

The posting went fine, and thanks for doing it. Dalton probably should have a place in this list as well. I might quibble at the usefulness of his table compared to Mendeleev’s inasmuch as the latter’s is still in use pretty much as the author had designed it, but the facts are clear.

[Hot Tabasco]

I guess you’re funning me!

Yes I am......

[idov]

No question Meitner instead of Hahn. She was the physicist and he was the chemist. Hahn, despite being under the Nazis and she Jewish, sent her the results of tests done after she fled to Scandinavia. She had her Eureka moment there.
Also Niels Bohr deserves to be on the last.
And what about Giordano Bruno?