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21 Apr 2012, 8:05 pm

Richard Feynman. He always said that he wasn't particularly clever, and I believe him. But he just surrounded himself with interesting questions and thought about them all day. He didn't buy into the culture of academia, and he never forgot how to approach something like a child would.



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21 Apr 2012, 8:08 pm

John York was a famous Pathologist and researcher but he can not hold a candel to Edwin Klebs.



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21 Apr 2012, 9:30 pm

Nikola Tesla.


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21 Apr 2012, 10:58 pm

Lev Davidovich Landau






Feynman is famous mainly for his personality, more so than his contributions.



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21 Apr 2012, 11:09 pm

AspieRogue wrote:
Lev Davidovich Landau






Feynman is famous mainly for his personality, more so than his contributions.


I have been waiting to find out who your favorite scienitist is.



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22 Apr 2012, 5:03 am

Charles Darwin.
He's one of my heroes for being a such a humane and down to earth character as well as being the core reason we now know about genetics.



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22 Apr 2012, 3:20 pm

Candles15 wrote:
Charles Darwin.
He's one of my heroes for being a such a humane and down to earth character as well as being the core reason we now know about genetics.


Yes Charles Darwin was brilliant if he where alive today he could find out what causes autism.



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22 Apr 2012, 3:39 pm

Jane Goodall. Image


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22 Apr 2012, 4:06 pm

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Jane Goodall. Image


I shall look her up as well.



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22 Apr 2012, 4:34 pm

AspieRogue wrote:
Lev Davidovich Landau






Feynman is famous mainly for his personality, more so than his contributions.


Feynman was one of the physicists who put quantum electrodynamics on the right path. He made substantial physics contribution. Lev Landau was absolutely brilliant. An unfortunate auto accident deprived mankind of ten years of his excellent intellect.

Just about every physicist doodles Feynman diagrams. Feynman had a talent to getting to the root of problems and finding outstanding hueristics to solve them.

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22 Apr 2012, 5:46 pm

I am very fond of Galileo. I also rather like Einstein, if only because we agree on a great number of philosophical and political issues.



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23 Apr 2012, 1:30 am

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I am very fond of Galileo. I also rather like Einstein, if only because we agree on a great number of philosophical and political issues.


Galileo was a briliant and amazing mind indeed.



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23 Apr 2012, 4:14 am

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And Alan Turing
He's my favourite.


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23 Apr 2012, 10:41 am

MONKEY wrote:
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Damn!
Ya beat me to being the first to mention her.
Im a long time fan of her too!



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23 Apr 2012, 10:54 am

Joker wrote:
Candles15 wrote:
Charles Darwin.
He's one of my heroes for being a such a humane and down to earth character as well as being the core reason we now know about genetics.


Yes Charles Darwin was brilliant if he where alive today he could find out what causes autism.


Yes, he would have! :D



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24 Apr 2012, 8:46 pm

Candles15 wrote:
Joker wrote:
Candles15 wrote:
Charles Darwin.
He's one of my heroes for being a such a humane and down to earth character as well as being the core reason we now know about genetics.


Yes Charles Darwin was brilliant if he where alive today he could find out what causes autism.


Yes, he would have! :D


Probably not. Darwin had no idea how inheritable characteristics went from one generation to the next. He had no notion of genes.

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