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Can you name the The 100 most influential scientists, according to John Galbraith Simmons' 'The Scientific 100: A Ran?
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100 Most Influential Scientists Quiz
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markyb
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Oct 11th, 2009 at 06:47 GMT
6 points
Good but tough quiz. Some of these guys I've never even heard of before. I know you didn't create the list, but Sigmund Freud is NOT a scientist. There's nothing scientific about his work. It's all speculation with no way to prove or disprove it. Where is Edward Jenner also? I mean, he's only the "Father of Immunology" who discovered the smallpox vaccine and saved millions of lives.
TimeAndTide
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Oct 11th, 2009 at 07:18 GMT
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I agree with you. Freud shouldn't be on the list, let alone 6th. But as you said, it's not my list. Jenner should be on the list. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin should be on the list. So should Roentgen, Becquerel, Hertz, Pauli, Franklin, etc. etc. Frankly, I think any of those are more influential than, say, Stephen Hawking -- brilliant, yes, but influential?!? Thanks for the feedback.
RebeccaAMax
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Oct 11th, 2009 at 07:21 GMT
1 point
I agree - not the best list. Not your fault, of course, TimeAndTide.
yggdrasil
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Oct 11th, 2009 at 07:50 GMT
3 points
You should probably also accept just Galileo's first name since that's what most people refer to him by.
spongebob
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Oct 11th, 2009 at 13:10 GMT
-4 points
Gutenberg should be number 1
TimeAndTide
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Oct 11th, 2009 at 15:49 GMT
2 points
Thanks, yggdrasil. It now accepts Galileo.
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Jonilase
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Oct 11th, 2009 at 18:29 GMT
-5 points
How about Thomas Edison?
Polymer
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 05:11 GMT
1 point
Through no fault of Time and Tide, this list has a SEVERE bias towards physical science (and more specifically - physics). I agree it's bizarre that Freud is on the list when he's virtually the ONLY representative of social science and usually we don't think of social scientists when we just say "science." The list also has a severe sexist bias - there are women who have been influential enough to be amongst the top 100 but they are drastically underrepresented (Goodal? McClintock? Frank? Zimmerman?).
TimeAndTide
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Oct 12th, 2009 at 05:31 GMT
3 points
Polymer: As a woman physicist, I strongly disagree with you and strongly agree with you. ;-) Let's compromise and put a bunch more female physicists on the list. I'm thinking: Maria Goeppert Mayer, Lise Meitner, Emmy Noether, Chien Shiung Wu, Irene Joliot-Curie, Gertrude Goldhaber, Rosalind Franklyn, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Katharine Blodgett, and Vera Rubin, to name a few. Physics rocks! Women Rock! Haha.
brazenchild
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Oct 16th, 2009 at 05:52 GMT
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It wouldn't take just the last names for Anton van Leeuwenhoek or Louis Victor de Broglie.
TimeAndTide
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Oct 16th, 2009 at 13:27 GMT
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GJK: Thanks -- fixed it.
micah
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Oct 16th, 2009 at 18:17 GMT
0 points
Tycho is another one who's frequently referred to by his first name...
TimeAndTide
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Oct 16th, 2009 at 19:13 GMT
1 point
Good point, Micah. Thanks. Just fixed it.
orbit
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Oct 22nd, 2009 at 03:21 GMT
2 points
Does it accept von Neumann? Also, Freud != scientist. (I know you didn't make the list, just needs to be reiterated.) Although, I guess it could be argued that Euler isn't a scientist either. Biggies who are missing include Gibbs, Kelvin, Arrhenius, and maybe Seaborg and Krebs.
jgsimmons
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Nov 8th, 2009 at 01:06 GMT
3 points
I wrote the book on which the quiz is based (though not the quiz), and I appreciate all the comments. Hope one day to have an opportunity to develop a second edition. The book has recently been reprinted in an inexpensive hardcover edition by Fall River Press.
ppirilla
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 21:57 GMT
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Psychology is generally not considered a science by either psychologists or scientists. Mathematics is also not generally considered science, and as far as I know, the only significant contributions of Euler and Euclid were in pure mathematics. As a side note to those complaining about the skew towards physics: remember that without the advances made in quantum physics, we would have little to no knowledge in chemistry either!
ryguy579
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Feb 12th, 2010 at 03:52 GMT
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Aristotle needs to be on this list. He was a scientist, and although his work has largely been disproved, his theories on science dominated western thought for more than 1000 years. His influence was enormous, and he needs to be here. Also missing, I would put Friedrich Wohler, Gibbs, and Chadwick, and I'm probably missing others as well. Euler and Euclid definitely belong there; the former had contributions to physics, and the latter formed the basis of all mathematics in the ancient world. To suggest that didn't have a huge impact upon all science as we know it would be wrong.
tman90
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Feb 12th, 2010 at 19:09 GMT
3 points
What about da vinci man?
anneya
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Feb 16th, 2010 at 23:22 GMT
1 point
That was fun. And nostalgic in a way. I was surprised at how many scientists with units named after them didn't make the cut.
Retracto
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Feb 22nd, 2010 at 15:12 GMT
1 point
Very interesting, but a lot of obscure figures, and it's one of those "chosen because of the options of a list maker somewhere" things. Fun though.
Retracto
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Mar 19th, 2010 at 13:35 GMT
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I don't get why, say, Ptolemy or Eratosthenes didn't make the list, but Euclid and Archimedes did. Euclid's more of a mathematician anyway. And Ehrlich and Freud? Nothing scientific there. Ah well. The quiz itself as you programmed it was good, no complaints.
Retracto
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Mar 19th, 2010 at 21:27 GMT
1 point
Oops, nevermind about Ehrlich. They meant the *good* one from the 19th Century. ^_^
KitchenDancer
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Dec 19th, 2010 at 01:56 GMT
1 point
Could you also accept Mendeleyev for Mendeleev? That's how I was taught to spell it. Also, if the criterion is "influential" - I'm surprised Alfred Nobel didn't make the list.
Pyrophorus
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Sep 23rd, 2012 at 18:40 GMT
1 point
Kind of surprised to not see Haber (ammonia synthesis, chemical weapons), either Turing or Babbage (computers), and Volta, Ampere, Edison, or Tesla (electricity) in addition to some others who have been mentioned. Von Braun is also pretty influential for rocketry. Maybe the author was trying to measure influence within science and not so much influence on everyday life?
dumbgai
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Oct 1st, 2012 at 06:25 GMT
1 point
I know you didn't make the list, but it's disappointing that nobody from the world of fluid mechanics made the list. The most notable being Bernoulli, Mach, Prandtl, and von Karman. Also, I say that if someone has an SI unit named after them, they belong on this list. So that would include Ampere, Coulomb, Hertz, Tesla, Pascal, Volta, etc.
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