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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:41 pm    Post subject: Your Favorite Scientist Reply with quote

I have a lot of favorite Scientists but my favorites are. Who is your favorite Scientist and why?

Galileo Galilei best known for the New Science.

Claude Bernard best known for the Founding of Modern Physiology.

Linus Pauling A Lutheran known for Twentieth-Century Chemistry.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

einstein - revolutionized physics and advocated against use of nuclear weapons.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cathylynn wrote:
einstein - revolutionized physics and advocated against use of nuclear weapons.


I am so glad the Nazis coulnd't force him to build a bomb for them at that Einstein exscaped Nazi germany.

Enrico Fermi was Cathlolic did reasearch on Atomic Physics.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dawkins, Sagan, Jung. There are probably others I forget.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bun wrote:
Dawkins, Sagan, Jung. There are probably others I forget.


Dawkins I do not mind but Sagan not so much Jung is good but not that big of a fan of his work.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, and Desmond Morris
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Max Planck (1858-1947)
Planck made many contributions to physics, but is best known for quantum theory, which revolutionized our understanding of the atomic and sub-atomic worlds. In his 1937 lecture "Religion and Naturwissenschaft," Planck expressed the view that God is everywhere present, and held that "the holiness of the unintelligible Godhead is conveyed by the holiness of symbols." Atheists, he thought, attach too much importance to what are merely symbols. Planck was a churchwarden from 1920 until his death, and believed in an almighty, all-knowing, beneficent God (though not necessarily a personal one). Both science and religion wage a "tireless battle against skepticism and dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition" with the goal "toward God!"
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Archimedes and Gauss.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Richard Feynman and P.A.M. Dirac

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Richard Dawkins

I like his passion and the way it comes through in his writing. I also respect him for standing up for his views so strongly
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ruveyn wrote:
Richard Feynman and P.A.M. Dirac

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I like his theory of quantum electrodynamics very interesting I must say.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Einstein: Revolutionized science and tried to stop the use of nuclear bombs.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And Alan Turing
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kill231 wrote:
Einstein: Revolutionized science and tried to stop the use of nuclear bombs.


Yes he did Einstein knew the dangers of nuclear bombs and was against them being used people should have been again nuclear bombs but then again if we didn't drop the atomic bomb on japan they would have never stopped fighting.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Faraday - His work on electromagnetism is the foundation of so much of the 21st century world, plus he worked on plenty other cool theories, ideas and designs like the Faraday cage.
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