Our World has seen a lot of great Scientists How would you rate them.
I am mainly considering Physics Scientists.

Just tell me Which are the best Scientists you liked and why you liked
them.

Here are the Scientist I liked the Best.

1. Best of All I think is Newton.
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He gave laws of Motion and Told about Gravity. So Most of the Weapons
work on his principles. Space Missions need Newtons Laws of Gravity.
And Modern weapons like Missiles, Tanks, Guns all work based on Newton
Laws.

2nd Best: Faraday
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He gave us Light and Electricity. So all Fans, Coolers, Machines that
work on Electricity and give us so much Comfort are all because of
Faraday.

3rd James Watt
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Sanny wrote:

I agree that Newton was smarter than Einstein. Einstein made effective
use of mathematical tools brought to his attention, particularly by his
friend, Marcel Grossman.

Newton had to forge the tools to study motion de novo. So he invented
his version of calculus.

I doubt that Einstein could have done the work of Gauss, Riemann,
Levi-Civita AND done the physics too.

Bob Kolker

On May 31, 6:08 am, "Robert J. Kolker" comcast.net> wrote:

BradGuth wrote:

More crackpot conspiracy theories from our very own Brad.

If there was a Cartel, then how did Einstein ever get published in the
first place?

Bob Kolker

On 31 May, 13:28, Sanny hotmail.com> wrote:

Robert J. Kolker wrote on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:08:54 -0400:

There was a recent poll about that and Newton won of course :-)

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1515693.htm

http://royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=3880

A popular phrase is saying, "there was many Einsteins but only a Newton".

Still Einstein is very popular between public because of the 20th
marketing around him. It is just a good business $$$ :-)

But recent advances in research are proving Newton picture to be much
more close to Nature than traditionally believed. Some recent works have
proved Maxwell and Einstein to be wrong about Newtonian action at a
distance

E.g. from

knucmo wrote:>

Maxwell (by way of beefing up Faraday's ideas) introduced the concept of
the field. Prior to that, forces were conceived of as being point to
point interactions.

Bob Kolker

On May 31, 6:39 am, "Robert J. Kolker" comcast.net> wrote:

To your excellent list of historical "best", I would
add the recently deceased John Archibald Wheeler.
His greatest fame I guess was his naming of black holes
"black holes". He was also a great teacher and writer.
More difficult is the naming of contemporaries.

All of those you named are outstanding. Especially Faraday.

On Sat, 31 May 2008 05:28:18 -0700 (PDT), Sanny hotmail.com> wrote:

Sanny wrote:

Hey stooopid, given two shades of blue - which is more beautiful?

Hey stooopid, given a regular tetrahedron with one each vertex colored
black, white, red, green plus another regular tetrahedron that is its
mirror image - which one is right-handed?

Hey stooopid, given the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean - which
is more like itself than the other?