I have asked this question before, but didn't really get any serious answers... voters chose "from 1 to 10" as the best answer. I don't appreciate asinine answers, and am actually curious as to who people think are/were great scientists. If possible, please include explanations/rationale for your ranking.
2007-05-01 16:40:07 · 5 answers · asked by Andy 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
1. Isaac Newton - No doubt on this one. Not only gravity, light, calculus ... but basically inventing the modern scientific method.
2. Aristotle - For being perhaps inventing the idea of a systematic approach to nature.
3. Charles Darwin - For providing one of the most elegant theories in the history of science, the backbone of all modern biology.
4. Albert Einstein - For sheer brilliance and imagination with the special and general theories of relativity.
5. Galileo - For completing the Copernican revolution, and helping us to get over ourselves as the center of the universe.
6. James Clerk Maxwell - A personal favorite ... Maxwell's equations are beautiful, and unified so many fields of science.
7. Louis Pasteur - Confirming the germ theory of disease essentially founding modern medicine.
8. Neils Bohr - Solidifying atomic theory and quantum mechanics.
9. Max Planck - Founder of quantum theory, and an all-round brilliant guy.
10. Edwin Hubble - For making some of the most significant discoveries in modern astronomy (no easy feat).
2007-05-01 17:22:58 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well of course. First, the sun would rise in the west instead of the east and set in the east not the west. If we are talking about if everything went on as it does now except the rotation of the earth is in the reverse direction, the effect of reverse tidal forces will have a great effect on the moon, which would be orbiting according to earth's old spin direction, and the ramifications of this for both the moon and the earth, since the moon causes the tides and many other things on the earth, are beyond me at the moment
2007-05-01 16:53:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Newton
Galileo
Darwin
Aristotle
Semmelweis
Einstein
Neils Bohr
Pasteur
Lamarck
Pauling
2007-05-01 16:54:07 · answer #3 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tesla # 1
2015-05-18 11:23:49 · answer #4 · answered by tim r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wuldn't because I don't know
2007-05-01 16:41:39 · answer #5 · answered by The H 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋