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Favorite Scientists???
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Most BadA** men in science.
Well, they couldn't have done it without Rosalind Franklin. What does that make her?
Well, they couldn't have done it without Rosalind Franklin. What does that make her?
Although Rosalind deserves some credit for her work, WC fully deserve theirs for having the proper thinking in relating the x-ray crystallgraph to DNA's actual structure.
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Did Watson and Crick get their noses cut off in a duel? NO
Did they have a pet elk which got so DRUNK at a party that it fell down a staircase and died? NO
Were they so hardcore that instead of being impolite and retiring to the restroom at a state function they simply let their bladder explode? NO
Erwin Schrodinger. Got frustrated one day, set off to a mountain cabin with his mistress for a vacation. Whilst there, he completed work on one of the most fundamental equations in quantum mechanics.
The real story is, of course, more complicated than that. I just like that version 🙂
The real story is, of course, more complicated than that. I just like that version 🙂
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Dr. James Watson--For everything from his initial Nobel Prize to his incredibly controversial and confrontational ways (and his dicking-over with the Human Genome Project after managing the project to completion years ahead of schedule).
Carl Sagan--Came up with more unique thoughts and scientific breakthroughs with a library and a joint than the staff of many academic institutions.
Worst Scientist To Walk The Face Of The Earth: Francis Collins. I've never come across a more spineless excuse for a scientific mind. This is what you need to be if you want to play politics, get funding, or get credit for the work of stronger men:
http://www.amazon.com/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence/dp/0743286391
Not one unique thought in the entire book.
Dr. James Watson--For everything from his initial Nobel Prize to his incredibly controversial and confrontational ways (and his dicking-over with the Human Genome Project after managing the project to completion years ahead of schedule).
Carl Sagan--Came up with more unique thoughts and scientific breakthroughs with a library and a joint than the staff of many academic institutions.
Worst Scientist To Walk The Face Of The Earth: Francis Collins. I've never come across a more spineless excuse for a scientific mind. This is what you need to be if you want to play politics, get funding, or get credit for the work of stronger men:
http://www.amazon.com/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence/dp/0743286391
Not one unique thought in the entire book.
Feynman
Kary Mullis is pretty cool too. I think he gets like a dollar or something each time someone does a PCR.
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Most BadA** men in science.
Especially considering Crick was on LSD.
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My first favorite scientist is Jeffrey Alan Gray, a psychologist.
Kary Mullis credits the craetion of PCR to LSD. Well, he didn't say that directly but he did say he wasn't sure that he would have thought of it if he had never done LSD. 👍👍👍
Kary Mullis credits the craetion of PCR to LSD. Well, he didn't say that directly but he did say he wasn't sure that he would have thought of it if he had never done LSD. 👍👍👍
Kary mullis!
Brian Cox - rock star particle physicist
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Albert Hoffman
1906-2008. 102 years strong. 👍
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Not really. She had independently come up with the idea of a double-helix while Watson/Crick were simultaneously coming up with their own models for the structure. They asked her to come look at their model to see if it was correct, and after she confirmed that yes it was, they published. The way I see it, Watson/Crick kept on guessing over and over again, and kept on asking Franklin "is this right?...no...ok...is THIS right?"...eventually when she said yeah it is, they knew what the structure was.
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Pauling and Maxwell are awesome.
Others: Charles Darwin, Santiago Ramon y Cajal (discovered neurons biatches!), Marie Cuire, Paul Broca, and Wilder Penfield.
The idea for a double helix certainly existed before Rosalind Franklin. She generated the data, which supported the hypothesis of a double helix. To be fair neither Franklin nor Watson/Crick would have figured it out alone.
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James McGaugh...he is a genuinely good person and awesome scientist who also plays in a jazz band!
Kary Mullis? Really? Yeah, PCR is amazing, but the guy is a climate change and HIV/AIDS connection denier, and believes wholeheartedly in astrology. He's a walking disaster for science.
Richard Feynman because he's cocky, crazy smart, and has a way with explaining things. Plus he worked on the Manhattan Project!
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Alexander Shulgin because he was crazy enough to synthesize tons of psychoactive drugs and try them himself (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL.)
Pauling...only person to receive Nobel Prize for both peace and chemistry.
Schrodinger...if you think about the problem that this man solved with his mind, across disciplines (chemistry, physics and calculus all rolled together) and without technology.
Not to mention he was quantifying things in a microscopic world, solving problems he couldn't see.
Schrodinger...if you think about the problem that this man solved with his mind, across disciplines (chemistry, physics and calculus all rolled together) and without technology.
Not to mention he was quantifying things in a microscopic world, solving problems he couldn't see.
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Darwin FTW.
Interestingly, I probably would have been a Lamarckist if I lived in that era. Would have never believed Darwin's "random mutations" nonsense. 😀
Oh and Glenn Seaborg. The man was a trans-uranic genius.
Interestingly, I probably would have been a Lamarckist if I lived in that era. Would have never believed Darwin's "random mutations" nonsense. 😀
Oh and Glenn Seaborg. The man was a trans-uranic genius.
NERD ALERT!!! Did you guys get swirlies in high school? It's a mortal lock.
god, we are nerds
Sir, isaac newton
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At first I found it weird that my favorite scientists deal with very little biology, but I thinks that's what draws me to their books. I spend so much time learning the ins and outs of biology that when I want to read something for leisure I almost never pick up a book written by a biologist. It's much more pleasing to read about physics and the universe since I don't have to worry about all of the mind-numbing details.
Sidney Farber
I'm about 200 pages into The Emperor of All Maladies (highly recommend if anyone's looking for a good read!) and the man is absolutely brilliant .. I mean, how many doctors were "Fathers" of two different specialties (in Farber's case, of pediatric pathology and chemotherapy) in a single lifetime?
I'm about 200 pages into The Emperor of All Maladies (highly recommend if anyone's looking for a good read!) and the man is absolutely brilliant .. I mean, how many doctors were "Fathers" of two different specialties (in Farber's case, of pediatric pathology and chemotherapy) in a single lifetime?
Having worked in x-ray/CT for most of my adult life, I'm kind of partial to Roentgen.
And what list of badasses would be complete with no mention of Tesla?!
And what list of badasses would be complete with no mention of Tesla?!
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Newton's not getting as much love as he deserves. He's got my vote.
Watson's "controversial...ways"? He's just a plain good-old-fashioned bigot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Watson#Comments
adding my voice to the Rosalind Franklin chorus.
Beadle and Tatum are pretty cool too. they totally blew a few minds with their "genes code for enzymes" business prior to W and C discovering the double helix
John Snow is another unsung hero...he connected cholera with feces-contaminated water and saved soooo many lives, one of the fathers of epidemiology
Beadle and Tatum are pretty cool too. they totally blew a few minds with their "genes code for enzymes" business prior to W and C discovering the double helix
John Snow is another unsung hero...he connected cholera with feces-contaminated water and saved soooo many lives, one of the fathers of epidemiology
x 7 million got me interested in science and loved the songs at the end of the show
OOO and I forgot another cool scientist I learn about today
Rita Colwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_R._Colwell former president of the NSF and winner of the Stockholm water prize, one of the most accomplished microbiologists today
Rita Colwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_R._Colwell former president of the NSF and winner of the Stockholm water prize, one of the most accomplished microbiologists today
Leonardo da Vinci was surely genius.
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