Your Favorite Scientist

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I have a lot of favorite Scientists but my favorites are. Who is your favorite Scientist and why?

Galileo Galilei best known for the New Science.

Claude Bernard best known for the Founding of Modern Physiology.

Linus Pauling A Lutheran known for Twentieth-Century Chemistry.

einstein - revolutionized physics and advocated against use of nuclear weapons.

I am so glad the Nazis coulnd't force him to build a bomb for them at that Einstein exscaped Nazi germany.

Enrico Fermi was Cathlolic did reasearch on Atomic Physics.

Dawkins, Sagan, Jung. There are probably others I forget.

Dawkins I do not mind but Sagan not so much Jung is good but not that big of a fan of his work.

Oh, and Desmond Morris

Max Planck (1858-1947)
Planck made many contributions to physics, but is best known for quantum theory, which revolutionized our understanding of the atomic and sub-atomic worlds. In his 1937 lecture "Religion and Naturwissenschaft," Planck expressed the view that God is everywhere present, and held that "the holiness of the unintelligible Godhead is conveyed by the holiness of symbols." Atheists, he thought, attach too much importance to what are merely symbols. Planck was a churchwarden from 1920 until his death, and believed in an almighty, all-knowing, beneficent God (though not necessarily a personal one). Both science and religion wage a "tireless battle against skepticism and dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition" with the goal "toward God!"

Archimedes and Gauss.

Richard Feynman and P.A.M. Dirac

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Richard Dawkins

I like his passion and the way it comes through in his writing. I also respect him for standing up for his views so strongly

I like his theory of quantum electrodynamics very interesting I must say.

Einstein: Revolutionized science and tried to stop the use of nuclear bombs.

And Alan Turing

Yes he did Einstein knew the dangers of nuclear bombs and was against them being used people should have been again nuclear bombs but then again if we didn't drop the atomic bomb on japan they would have never stopped fighting.

Faraday - His work on electromagnetism is the foundation of so much of the 21st century world, plus he worked on plenty other cool theories, ideas and designs like the Faraday cage.

I like Richard Dawkins to but a lot of my friends who are atheist do not agree with his strong atheism other then that he is a very briliant person.