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    Who are the greatest scientists of the 20th century?

    Albert Einstien: Relativity, Equivalence of matter and energy

    Watson & Crick: Structure of DNA

    Tuzo Wilson: Plate Tectonics

    Ernst Rutherford: atomic structure

    Erwin Shrodinger & Co.: Quantum Mechanics

    Thedosious Dobzansky: Population Biology & Genetics

    Ernst Mayr: Evolutionary Biology (peripatric specialtion, to be specific)
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    Richard Feynman. Duh.
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      This is the second spinoff thread

      Einstien. He had the whole universe in his head.
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        Professor Frink

        You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving.

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          Hawking is great because of what he does to popularize science and the amazing pattern of thought.

          Robert Oppenheimer definitely deserves a mention. Wernher von Braun is brilliant and influental.
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          • #6
            I think Beaker was great too.
            Blah

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Solver

              Robert Oppenheimer definitely deserves a mention.
              BOOM!

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                No-one's mentioned Dirac yet?
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Last Conformist
                  No-one's mentioned Dirac yet?
                  He would be under "Shrodinger & Co."

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                    Who discovered the structure of DNA?
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                    • #11
                      Someone most likely named Fred DNA

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                      • #12
                        I see a decided lack of chemists and and an over representation of life sciences, IMO.

                        I submit:

                        Wallace Hume Carothers - Inventor Nylon and Neoprene

                        Roy J. Plunkett - Inventor of Teflon

                        Otto Bayer - Inventor of polyurethane

                        Reginald Gibson and Eric Fawcett - LDPE (polyethylene)

                        etc.
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                          What the heck is polyurethane?
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                            Thermoplastics used in most molded plastics. Also artificial rubber. Also the basis of foam for furniture, mattresses etc.
                            "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                            “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                            • #15
                              the guys who discovered Polyethene, the basis of all plastics... (Didn't they discover that in Manchester?)
                              You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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