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Max Planck

Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) was a German physicist who is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century.

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Robert F. Koch

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Paul Ehrlich

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Alexander von Humboldt

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Werner Heisenberg

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Johannes Kepler

First modern Astronomer, he detected that the Earth and the Sun are not in the center of the universe. He calculated the orbits of the planets.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

German-born American theoretical physicist whose special and general theories of relativity revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a theoretical base for the exploitation of atomic energy. He won a 1921 Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

667 points - added 15 years ago by JARM - 7 comments

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how did you become smart

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Einstein = genius

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Awesome

Added 11 years ago by guest, 1 point

AMAZING!!!

Added 12 years ago by guest, 4 points

u would not had gps,rocket etc. he is indeed the first but not without the earlier physitics

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He was a German Jew. He fled to the USA because of teh Nazis

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the best :D

Added 13 years ago by guest, 1 point

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Louis Pasteur

437 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 3 comments

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Pasteur proved that life always needs life to start with. Therefore the theory of evolution must be wrong. 150 years of scientific research since Pasteur have testified this.

Added 10 years ago by guest, 3 points

Darwins work had nothing to do with abiogenesis, Pasteur's work does not contradict evolution in any way.

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he proved that life always comes from life, he proved that Darwin was not right

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Philip Reis

invented the telephone

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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

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Max Born

354 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

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Being Olivia Newton Johns' grandfather should be worth something.

Added 13 years ago by StainBuster, 5 points

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Karl Ferdinand Braun

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Nikola Tesla

256 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

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He invented everything what we know today!!! He invented our future...

Added 13 years ago by guest, 8 points

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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theories of universal gravitation, terrestrial mechanics, and color. His treatise on gravitation, presented in Principia Mathematica (1687), was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple.

253 points - added 15 years ago by JARM - 3 comments

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He must be the FIRST!!! :X

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i luv him

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The best in the world!!!

Added 14 years ago by isaacnewton, -1 points

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Burkhard Heim

was a German theoretical physicist. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, his theory of everything.The loss of his hands and serious diminution of his eyesight apparently resulted in Heim acquiring an eidetic, acoustic memory. He was claimed to rarely forget a formula if he heard it recited, and was said to be able to learn a language in a matter of days.

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Ben Franklin

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Alexander von Humbold

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Charles Darwin

188 points - added 15 years ago by JARM - 2 comments

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greatest blinder pof science history

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Opened our eyes about our bodies and were we come from .woke us up..

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Lise Meitner

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Thomas Edison

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Leonardo Da Vinci

144 points - added 15 years ago by JARM - 1 comment

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Hands down the greatest mind in human kinds history. 500 years before his time.

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Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

Danish physicist who won a 1922 Nobel Prize for investigating atomic structure and radiations.

131 points - added 15 years ago by JARM - 1 comment

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This brain was way ahead of so many....he knew what was there but could not prove it..but at the quantum level..boy tha tis tough plowing..it's just so bizarre....no rules but yet ther eare rules....i think I will scream now.....

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Nikolai Lobachevsky

Most influential mathematician of 19th century. Creator of the non-Euclid geometry.

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Dmitri Mendeleev

Creator of periodic table of elements

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Carl Röntgen

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method.

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James Clerk Maxwell

124 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

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Greatest physicist of the 19th century.

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Wolfgang Jürgen Pauli

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Paul Ehrenfest

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Archimedes

Greek mathematician, engineer, and physicist. Archimedes discovered formulas for the area and volume of various geometric figures, applied geometry to hydrostatics and mechanics, devised numerous ingenious mechanisms, such as the Archimedean screw, and discovered the principle of buoyancy.

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Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist, nobel prize winner (1904). His scientific discoveries: reflex system, classical conditioning, behavior modification, orienting response.

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Ernest Rutherford

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Marie Curie

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Sir Robert Boyle

Boyle's law.. I know I know...so simple... but so brilliant!

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Michael Faraday

91 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

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without him we would still have no electricity

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Wolfgang Pauli

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RICARDO MORALES

NICARAGUAN ALCHIMIST AND THEORICIST, WHO DEFINES LIFE AS A GAME OF RETHORIC METAPHOR IN ITS INTRINSIC VIUW OF IDEAS AND SUBSTANCE ABSTRACCION TO MANIFEST SENCE, AND ALLEGORIC INFLUENCE IN OUR DAILY LIFE. HE UNIFIED QUANTUM PHISICS TO OUR EXPERIENCE IN THE CONCIUOS MIND TO IDENTIFY QUANTUM TRUTH IN EVERYBODY'S DREAM THRUGH THE INFLUENCE OF SYNCHRONICITY AND DNA EVOLUTION.

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simply fantastic

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David Hilbert

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Linus Pauling

Good Chemist

58 points - added 13 years ago by Snid - 1 comment

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doing a report on him , neat guy

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Richard Feynman

Quantum Electrodynamics,,, Feynman diagram,,,, many things

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Christiaan Huygens

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Robert Koch

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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

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Enrico Fermi

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Guglielmo Marconi

He invented the radio

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Michio Kaku

33 points - added 13 years ago by guest - 1 comment

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One of the BEST!!

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Jagadish Chandra Bose

31 points - added 11 years ago by guest - 1 comment

Comments:

greatest scientist for modern telecom evolution ......... should be awarded posthumous Nobel prize

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Edwin Powell Hubble

American astronomer who proved the existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way.

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plato

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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Aristotle

The father of biology. and made great advances in optics. besides having great insight in to the workings of nature he also put the sciences in to categories that we still you use today.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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A.M. Celal Sengor (1955-...)

Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör (born March 24, 1955) is a Turkish geologist. He is currently on the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering. He got his PhD at the State University of New York, Albany in 1982. He also writes weekly popular science columns in center-left daily Cumhuriyet. He is married with one child. Since 2004, Professor Şengör is a (foreign) member of The American Philosophical Society and United States National Academy of Sciences.

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socrates

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Rosalind Franklin

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Emmy Noether

Emmy Noether is best known for her contributions to abstract algebra, in particular, her study of chain conditions on ideals of rings.

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Viktor Schauberger

Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) made an extraordinary contribution to knowledge of the natural world. He was nd still is the Ambassador of Nature.

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Louis Agassiz

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Daniel Chang

Greatly contributed to science by completing the world's most important theories of calculus and quantum physics...Psychologist, Chemist, Astronomer, Physicist....

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Pierre Curie

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Manu ( Shanker Mishra)

Mathematician, New Age philiosphy) Unified Field Theory,Known primarily for his work on Super String Theory, Black Holes and multiple Big Bang.His works include Methodological Frame of the Field and LL.B,London Mathematical Society. Entire Cambridge University, UK was taken by a storm and the entire language of the prestigious CERN project changed in 2006 under the influence of his work.

10 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment

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The coincidence point theory and complete makeover of V spin in the IR and UV regime has brought in quantum loop gravity and the transform by gravitational spin as a very fundamental contribution to mathematical physics with far reaching consequences in Methodological Frame of the field. The inequalities worked out in LL.B have again lead to massive rethink. One of the biggest mathematician of our times.

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Joseph Priestly

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Carl Linnaeus

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Omar Khayyam

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Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

American astronomer noted for research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life and for speculation on the severity of a nuclear winter.

6 points - added 15 years ago by JARM - 1 comment

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Speculation is not science.

Added 13 years ago by StainBuster, 2 points

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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Scottish-born American audiologist best known as the inventor of the telephone (1876).

6 points - added 15 years ago by JARM - 4 comments

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The inventor of the telephone was Philip Reis in 1862. Graham Bell made modifications 13 years later with the help of a model of Reis. Interesiting story that he succeeded to gain fame instaed of Reis, since Reis supplied the US already 1862 with his telephones. May be this has to do with the isolation of islands.

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why, at the same time the German Philip Reis also invented the telephone

Added 12 years ago by guest, 1 point

Bell didn't invent anything, get up to date with stuff

Added 12 years ago by guest, 7 points

i like alexander graham bell because he invented the telephone

Added 13 years ago by guest, -8 points

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jayce

he invented beastlyness

5 points - added 12 years ago by haha - 1 comment

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i would have to agree!!!!!

Added 12 years ago by haha, 0 points

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Stephen Hawking ( 1942- )

Best known for study and nature of black holes and theoretical cosmology. Won Wolf Prize (1988), Prince of Asturias Award (1989), Copley Medal (2006), and Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009).

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Erasmus Darwin

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Stephen Jay Gould

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Carl Sagan

Physicist, exobiologist and the best critical thinker ever!

3 points - added 12 years ago by rnstat - 1 comment

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No scientist at all. Just a writer who make uneducated people belief in Santa Claus

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Irène Joliot-Curie

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sir j.j thompson

he discovered nucleus of an atom

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Maurice Wilkins

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Antonio Meucci (1808-1889)

He invented the first telephone

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Henry Cavendish

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John Dalton

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Eugene Wigner

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Ernest Lawrence

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Francis Crick

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Johannes Stark

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