Who is the greatest scientist of all time?

Answer 1

It would be Albert Einstien,, His knowlege of mathamatical numerals and discoveries and predictions are still in use today and is the setting of most astronomical uses today,, this is a good question because there are just so many that are the best,, gallileo was another great one and perhaps the best of his times and his theorys are also still applied in many applications today as well, Steven Hawkings is another great mind..

Answer 2

Theoretical scientists; Albert Einstein & Stephen Hawking
Physical scientists; Alexander Fleming (penicillin) & Nikola Tesla (AC electricity, among others)

Answer 3

Sir Isaac Newton followed very closely by Albert Einstein.

Answer 4

Einstein said that the greatest scientist of all time was Isaac Newton. I respect his judgment.

Answer 5

Wow, good question and something that is entirely subjective but I think that Harry Kroto is brilliant. James Hutton's discovery at Siccar point is mind blowing. Nils Bohr, Ernest Rutherford, and I haven't even got on to Einstein and other quantum mechanics... sorry I just can't pick!

Answer 6

Albert Einstein.

Answer 7

The greatest scientist was the first scientist, an eleventh-century Muslim scholar named Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham. He developed the system of inquiry--testing hypotheses with experiments--that all other scientsts have followed.

Born in Basra (located in what is now Iraq) in 965, Ibn al-Haytham 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 8

Dr Emmet Brown. Invented time travel using a Delorean car.

Answer 9

Carl Sagan was by FAR the greatest scientist.

Read about Carl Sagan and you'll agree.

Answer 10

Albert Einstein.
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