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[barron of ideas]

Greatest Physisist. Probably Isaac Newton. Lots of different brilliant intuitions, didn't really work at it all that much. Light, Calculus, laws of motion. I know there is a German who shares Calculus but Newton did his by himself. Everyone else is standing on his shoulders.

 

[Faboba]

Originally posted by Spacedog


Rhodri Mawr (also seen it spelled Rodri Mawr) was the first king of all Wales and ruled from 843-878. He united the various Welsh kingdoms through conquest or diplomacy. He gained international fame by repulsing Viking invaders. He was killed defending his kingdom from the Saxons. Upon his death, his kingdom was split up among his three sons.

Is he really listed as a SGL? I would think he would be a GL.

He sort of invented Castles.

I cannot stress the phrase sort of in the above sentance enough.

 

[Faboba]

Originally posted by barron of ideas
Greatest Physisist. Probably Isaac Newton. Lots of different brilliant intuitions, didn't really work at it all that much. Light, Calculus, laws of motion. I know there is a German who shares Calculus but Newton did his by himself. Everyone else is standing on his shoulders.

Leibniz is the German you're thinking of. Unfortunately good old Isaac being the kind of man he was couldn't settle for 'oh well, I guess we both developed it independantly' and set about destroying Leibniz academic connections and reputation. He is said to have remarked on Leibniz death that he was pleased he had the chance to break the old man's heart before he passed on.

I'd go for Buckminster Fuller. Just because nothing gave me more joy in higher chemistry than writing about buckminsterfullerenes.


Edit - note to self... Leibniz was a German, not a Germany.

 

[barron of ideas]

I guess the calculus was one of those ideas whose time had come, like the automobile. Lots of people "invented the automobile" once the tools (bicycles, relatively light engines of various types (steam, diesel, internal combustion, others?) were available. Interchangable parts and assembly line helped make it economical to produce in quantity, but hand-made bikes with motors was not an industrial technology.

 

[Seanirl]

ooh, oooh, just thought of a Celtic SGL, they could have Robert Boyle as in Boyle's Law Of Gases.

That list must have been the GL list. Castles are hardly great scientific achievements.

EDIT: Here's another idea from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine

The Irish inventor John Holland had better luck, and designed and built several quite successful gasoline- and electric powered submarines. Some of his vessels were purchased by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, and commissioned into their navies.

He made submarines and whatnot.

John Philip Holland (February 29, 1840 - August 12, 1914) the man who developed the first true submarine accepted by the U.S. Navy

He seems a pretty damn good choice.

 

[Bad Brett]

Edward Teller was American (I think) and is known for nuclear weapon research.

 

[WilliamOfOrange]

Ah, this is a great thread, it takes me back to my days as a physics undergrad (University of Waterloo, Ont, Class of 2001). Great to see all the physicists on here. I don't have Conquests yet, but have a couple of comments:

Nash: Mathematicians are some of the greatest scientific minds, and mathematicians are definitely GSL's. Other's include Leibnitz, mentioned above, (yeah, Newton was a right bastard sometimes), Euler, Fibanacci (sp), Enrice Fermi, and Gauss (sp....man it's been too long, but as in Gauss's law, Gaussian pill box)

Tesla: I thought he was Croatian acutally, he and Edison had the big debate about AC vs. DC IIRC. Tesla was right.

Feymann: I agree, this guy was cool, he is on the list rightfully so

Arrhenius (sp?): should be on the Scandinavian list as well as Bronsted, both contributing to acid/base theory and research

James Clerk Maxwell: Should be on the English list, we was English right?
Lord Kelvin, as well

Carver: I suggested in another thread that he be included, and I am glad he was....he invented peanut butter

Glenn Seaborg: American, worked with the American Atomic Energy Commission for 40 years. This guy synthesized all the trans-uranium elements, #93 and onward. worked out of UC, Berkeley. Element 106 is named for him. He passed away in 1999 or so, but I had the fortune to meet him as an undergrad.

Robert Milikan: His famous oil drop experiment, a deserving addition to the American list, as well as the inventor of the transistor at Bell Laboratries in California, 1947: Shockley (Shockey ?) he worked with two others, but took all the credit

Oppenheimer: Thought he was German as well, I could be wrong

Buckminster Fuller: I thought he was British, not American....oh well, cool name

Mendeleev: should be on the Russian list, if he is not, but surely he would be. What about Markovnikov, a little organic chemistry?

Marconi: Italian....could be on the Roman list...sent first radio signal

German: Hertz, Hemholtz, Haber, Erwin Shroedinger, there is plenty more

Pauling: defintely, he should be on there, and I would even say, Lewis, for his famed Lewis structures

Louis Pasteur: discovered that bacteria caused disease, revolutionizing the food and health industry. discovered vacination. Great French GSL as well as Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie.....which begs the question, would you put Marie as a French GSL.....she did all her research their, won 2 Nobel Prizes for her work.

Einstein: German, politics aside, he was German

Famous Canadian Scientists: Alexander Graham Bell, a Scot, but emmigrated to Canada, invented the telephone

Sir Sanford Fleming: time zones and penicillin

The zipper was invented in St. Catherines, Ontario and the Scanning Electron Microscope, in Brantford, Ontario (where Bell lived as well)

Rutherford (a Kiwi) performed his famous gold foil in Montreal, if I am not mistaken

Man, I actually miss university after thinking about all this, Schroedinger's Cat, Maxwell's Demon....good stuff

 

[EddyG17]

... Bill Gates?

 

[anarres]

Originally posted by EddyG17
... Bill Gates?

Is marketing a science?

 

[EddyG17]

well... he did invented microsoft(or was it windows?...) which every body uses today... he is a inventor sort of...

 

[WilliamOfOrange]

I know that this thread is probably dead long ago, but I stumbled upon this quote from Einstein and thought it interesting given what some people assumed Einstein would consider himself....

Albert Einstein

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

I think Edison should be in there. Also chances are if your US ur not getting many SGL anyway, since its non scientific.