who is the best scientist of all time? and why?

Question

Nikola Tesla, someone know him?

Answer 1

Albert Einstein.
Because of his theory of relativity. Also the proposal of fourth dimension and bending of universe have not been solved so far.

Answer 2

Why do you consider Tesla as the best, I can't guess. Yes certainly Tesla had his day and some of his predictions are yet to be studied thoroughly or understood as he did. But each one down the lane has contributed something very important.

It is like picking to tell which part of a car is most important. What if the screw that binds the wheels together is left out? Or what if the breakwheel is pulled out? I can't answer any one as best. But eveyone has been important. Starting Pythagoras (even before) till date any one who is popular like Hawkins and more (even after).

You might have known the kindergarten story of a quarrel between the stomach, mouth, and the hands about who is great? There are numerous such metaphors and stories making rounds. Such as Chinese woman carrying two water pots one with a hole and another without a hole, A washer man with two quarreling donkeys and so on.

Each is great in his own place and time.

Answer 3

Most scientist build on what others have done, Its the ones that create a new science for others to expand who are the "best" The concept of a scientist has only been around for 200yrs or so. My vote is for the one who said " my its cold in this cave, can you ask ugg for a light, take my invention of the cart & wheel to his village, heres a note in case you forget " Dont know his name,

Answer 4

The greatest scientist of all time is Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, the eleventh-century Muslim scholar who developed the scientific method--the system of inquiry that uses experiments to test hypotheses.

Born in Basra (located in what is now Iraq) in 965, Ibn al-Haytham—known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen—wrote more than 200 books and treatises on a wide range of subjects. He was the first person to apply algebra to geometry, founding the branch mathematics known as analytic geometry.

Ibn al-Haytham created discreet, verifiable experiments to test the validity of ideas. To test his hypothesis that “lights and colors do not blend in the air,” for example, Ibn al-Haytham devised the world's first camera obscura, observed what happened when light rays intersected at its aperture, and recorded the results. This is just one of dozens of “true demonstrations,” or experiments, contained in Kitāb al-Manāzir (Book of Optics).

Kitāb al-Manāzir was translated into Latin as De aspectibus in the late thirteenth century in Spain. Copies of the book circulated throughout Europe. Roger Bacon wrote a summary of it entitled Perspectiva (Optics). The major European scientists—from Bacon and Witelo to Kepler and Newton—were familiar with Ibn al-Haytham's work. The Europeans did not fully grasp his mathematics until the seventeenth century. Many of his discoveries about light and vision remain true today. He is the father of modern science and remains its greatest practitioner.

Answer 5

Hello,

(ANS) There is no doubt in my mind that it has to be Albert Einstein for his discoveries and for the development of his theories of general relativity.

It was Einstein who was able to conceive of how gravity affects objects in space, his ideas remain extremely important and extremely influential even to this very day. Our entire understanding of how our universe is formed & behaves is down to Einstein.

**Newton would be my second most important scientist.

Ivan

Answer 6

obinna
The best scientist of all times is sir Issac Newton because he discovered the laws of motion and calculus which constitute the foundation on which other discoveries were made.

Answer 7

People who know more about it than I do usually pick Isaac Newton.

Universal Gravitation
Calculus
the demonstration of light as waves
and there's probably a few other reasons, too.

Answer 8

I think Einstein's theory of General Relativity takes some beating in terms of radical scientific thinking.

Answer 9

i think the best scientist of all time is van Luwenhook - sp, i mean he invented the first microscope and if it wasnt for his discovery, we might not have been able to understand biology so much as we do now

another one is Gregor mendel - the father of genetics - thanks partially to his research, alot can be explained about ourselves

Answer 10

einstein contributed to science brownian motion, quantum physics, special relativity, general relativity, newton contributed to science the calculus, reflector telescope, light, gravity, they both stand out above the rest.