Einstein

[JtheJackal]

Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo Galilei
Enrico Fermi
Guglieilmo Marconi
Lucretius

this is Rome's and it doesn't just focus on ancient Rome

 

[Seanirl]

Out of interest... what's the Celt list like?

That'd be interesting to see...

 

[delsully]

Originally posted by Seanirl
Out of interest... what's the Celt list like?

That'd be interesting to see...

Arthur Guinness and John jameson

 

[Sparta]

nicely done delsully - i was actually interested in that list of celt SGL's (i'm irish and playing them now, but no SGL yet), but your post certainly proved vastly more entertaining. good one. can we put bushmill in there?

 

[Seanirl]

Arthur Guinness and John jameson

heheh...

seriously though I wonder who they are..... I can't think of anyone off the top of my head they could use.

 

[CrazyScientist]

I noticed James Watson wasn't on the US list.
Did Crick make the cut for England? How about Rosalyn Franklin?
Surely DNA is worth some recognition.

 

[col]

Originally posted by ShiplordAtvar
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Nicola Tesla
Richard Feynman
George W. Carver
Buckminster Fuller

Tesla was Hungarian. Edison was an inventor not a scientist.

 

[Pirate]

Originally posted by col

Edison was an inventor not a scientist.

Where is the distinction? Earlier you said mathmaticians aren't scientists either. A scientist does not necessarily mean physical sciences nor does it mean purely theoretical. Edison and Nash both followed the scientific method in making predictions and testing them through models and controlled experiments. I must respectfully take issue with your definition of scientist.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Originally posted by Vorpal
Let's try these:

Oppenheimer -- now he really was the one who created the a-bomb;

Eistein's theory was used for the atomic bomb and General Leslie Richard Groves headed construction, so what did this guy do?

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

Einstein, much as he was without a doubt the greatest Physicist in our history as a species, once said that there was not enough Uranium on the planet to build a nuclear weapon. There are others more deserving of this "accolade" if you truly believe it can called that. Oppenheimer is certainly among them.

I don't see a problem with Einstein being referred to as an American, but I would have imagined that having him as a German SGL would have made more sense. His most important work (I'm a Physicist and trust me it was General Relativity by far) wasn't done in America. He was American for only a small fraction of his life.

Feynman was a fantastic Physicist (I'm drawing Feynman diagrams in one of my courses at the moment), but I don't think he can be compared to Einstein. They actually dug up Einsteins body to see if his brain was abnormal, now that is an accolade.

Did Prof. Stephen Hawking make it as an English SGL? It would be weird to have someone alive in the game.

 

[Spacedog]

My vote for American SGL would be Philo Taylor Farnsworth, inventor of the greatest invention since fire (even that wheel thing was highly overrated), the television.

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html

For those inclined to think of our fading century as an era of the common man, let it be noted that the inventor of one of the century's greatest machines was a man called Phil. Even more, he was actually born in a log cabin, rode to high school on horseback and, without benefit of a university degree (indeed, at age 14), conceived the idea of electronic television--the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. To cap it off, he spent much of his adult life in a struggle with one of America's largest and most powerful corporations. Our kind of guy.

Without Philo Farnsworth, none of us would be able to sit at our computers and play Civ for hours on end to the neglect of family, friends, food, and even hygiene. Let's have a round of applause for good ole' Phil.

 

[Bad Brett]

Edwars Teller is the perfect one for the U.S!

EDIT: ...Hope someone will get this joke...

 

[KingTux]

I'm all for Linus Torvalds, but, hey, that's just me!

 

[SewerStarFish]

Originally posted by Masquerouge
Yeah, I think that's a bug... I got three Hammurabis playing as Babylon. All three of them sat quietly together in my capitol...

Me too, sort of, my first game with the Sumerians yielded the same SGL twice. I'll start a thread on the bug thread if no one else has.
EDIT: I see there is one.

 

[JtheJackal]

Originally posted by Seanirl
Out of interest... what's the Celt list like?

That'd be interesting to see...

This is Celts
Maredudd ap Owain
Grufudd ap Llewelyn
Rhodri Mawr

and this England
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Francis Bacon
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing

 

[jamesjkirk]

Originally posted by Bad Brett
Edwars Teller is the perfect one for the U.S!

EDIT: ...Hope someone will get this joke...

Riiiiiiight, Teller was, uh, Somewhereelsian, right? Hungary maybe?

 

[aaglo]

Can anyone check from the conquests (I don't have it yet):
Is Alfred Nobel in the Scandinavian SGL-list?

 

[Seanirl]

This is Celts
Maredudd ap Owain
Grufudd ap Llewelyn
Rhodri Mawr

what the?

weird..... wonder what they did? They all sound Welsh or something.

 

[Spacedog]

Originally posted by Seanirl

This is Celts
Maredudd ap Owain
Grufudd ap Llewelyn
Rhodri Mawr

what the?

weird..... wonder what they did? They all sound Welsh or something.

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.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Originally posted by aaglo
Can anyone check from the conquests (I don't have it yet):
Is Alfred Nobel in the Scandinavian SGL-list?

SGL list for Scandianavia:

Anders Angstrom
Niels Bohr
Tycho Brahe
Niels Stensen
Hans Oersted