Who is the greatest scientist of all time?
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Hands down, it's Albert Einstein, because his intellect was so far ranging that we are, to this day, still discovering facets of his theories and proving him right, yet again! His mind was so far beyond his contemporaries that it has always been difficult to find scientists who could follow his teachings. He was brilliant beyond belief!
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Albert Einstein.  There are so many mysteries in the world, and I feel it would be fantastic to be able to solve some and come up with theories for others as well as Einstein.  (I love puzzles and mysteries, so in a small way I do know the feeling, but it would be amazing to do so in a large scale).
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Algernon Swinburne\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne
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I'd like to join the list... I'm not kidding it's my dream. To your question there are many... Albert Einstein, Christian Huygens, Nicola Tesla, Maxwell, Max Plank, Schrodinger.... the list is long
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dead: albert einstein\n\nliving: stephen hawking
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Rosalind Franklin -- the woman x-ray crystalographer whom Watson and Crick ... um ... ripped off to build their model of DNA\n\nRichard Dawkins ... one of the greatest thinkers when it comes to explaining mechanisms related to evolution\n\nRichard Feynman ... one of the greatest physists to ever live\n\nCharles Darwin ... interesting article in the "Skeptic" column in this month's (Feb 06) Scientific American on how Charles Darwin did not become an evolutionist overnight while in the Galapagos.  He was still considered a creationist for some time after the trip until conversations with others gave him the insights to come up with his theories which keep accumulating supporting evidence.\n\nAlfred Wegener -- the first recognized proposer of continental drift, or what we call plate tectonics today.\n\nJane Goodall -- the primatologist who studied chimpanzees for insights into human behavior.
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sir isaac newton. the man who "discovered" the law of gravity.
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Dr. No.\n\nBy far the best.
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SIR elbert einsten because he is the great scietist of history. his theory of relativity is very exellent . when this world lost after some lack year then then this theory help us because in the future scientist go on new world in the space.these all thing posible when einstien theory says\nthat  for example a man  (age=18)who live on earth and one who(age=18) which goes in the universe with the speed of light after 50 years the age of man which who live on earth his age 65 year. and one which goes in the universe with speed of light his age is 35 years. tell me which scientist is genius.
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How about Madame Curie...would that be helpful? I was going to suggest Charles Darwin, but noticed someone already answered...
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Stephen Hawking - see http://www.washington.edu/doit/Press/hawking3.html\n\nand \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_hawkin\n\nI hope this helps - Good Luck!!!
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Yes Mathematics is the universal lansuage and Einstein is considered a genius not because he was good at maths but because he was a great scientist. Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have..
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I don't think we'll ever know.  High IQ does not equal fame or "success."\n\nIf you're talking about the most intelligent popular person, most would say Einstein.  I think he was one really smart guy, but come on...he had one big idea.  He was a one-hit wonder.  Granted, it was a BIG idea, but I don't think that physicists needed E=mc^2 to figure out the atomic bomb or atomic fission.\n\nI think that most individuals would not qualify as "most intelligent."  I think you'll have to look at a society for that one.  The most intelligent society, I think, would be the Western world, including Japan and others that are of a similar perspective.  They made great strides in human rights, technology, world peace, and charity.  And these things were accomplished by many great leaders, and the society that agreed with them.
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So little known?? I've seen television shows about him, read numerous articles in mainstream periodicals, learned about him in many of my college courses...I don't know why you think he is little known-other than the fact that very few of the great physicists are well known by the general public, except for Einstein and Hawking, and maybe Curie.
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all of those answers are good.  i think the top three greatest players of all-time are wayne gretzky, gordie howe and mario lemieux. the greatest player now is a toss-up between alexander ovechkin and sidney crosby. the best defenseman now is a tossup between chris pronger and nick lidstrom.  the best leader now is steve yzerman.  the best goalie now:  martin brodeur.  the best goalie of all time: a tie between patrick roy and terry sawchuck.  the best leaders in history:  mark messier, steve yzerman, and joe sakic to name a few.
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Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish Astronomer \nGalileo Galilei - Italian Physicist\nJohannes Kepler - German Astronomer \nLord Kelvin (William Thomson) - British Physicist\n"I believe that the more throughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything compariable to athesim"
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haha it will be professor x. he will use his power to stop hawking to be the first!!!!