Who Is Your Favorite Scientist?

[CACTUSJACKmankin]

Right now I'd have to go with Richard Dawkins, I could listen to him speak for days.

I would say Stephen Hawking if it weren't for the computer voice, it's hard enough to comprehend what he's saying period. I don't know about anybody else but most of it goes over my head.

Well that's my two cents.

 

[kmortis]

Currently, Richard Feynman. I got some of his lectures on CD, and they're wonderful.

 

[Ladewig]

Kepler. For his perseverence: spending a decade trying to figure out the orbit of Mars. For his original thinking: Kant called "the most acute thinker ever born." For his groundbreaking work in many fields: astonomy, astrometry, optics, mathematics.

 

[Sushi]

Jesus Christ

 

[eri]

Norman Borlach. Thanks to P&T.

 

[AmateurScientist]

Jesus Christ

Priceless.

AS

 

[William Parcher]

Ernst Mayr

 

[Jorghnassen]

Batman.

 

[ringo]

Doctor Decepticon - for his groundbreaking work in laser beam weapons, death-ray modelling equations, and his pioneering contributions to the field of mind-control beams.

Other than that, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Carl Sagan. He has to be my favourite ever scientist - Dawkins is fantastic too. Both these guys are (and were, sadly) extremely humble and clear.

Ringo

 

[Pauliesonne]

Right now I'd have to go with Richard Dawkins, I could listen to him speak for days.

I would say Stephen Hawking if it weren't for the computer voice, it's hard enough to comprehend what he's saying period. I don't know about anybody else but most of it goes over my head.

Well that's my two cents.

Richard Dawkins, without a doubt.

 

[TV's Frank]

Me.

 

[brettDbass]

Feynman.

Not for his science particularly, more for living a fascinating life and leaving us with his stories.

 

[sionep]

Currently, Richard Feynman. I got some of his lectures on CD, and they're wonderful.

Richard Feynman is my favourite as well. I saw a video of his lectures of when he visited University of Auckland, New Zealand. The lectures were held years before I enrolled at varsity.

 

[Complexity]

Richard Feynman - for his work, his life, and the title The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

 

[IllegalArgument]

Richard Feynman is great

Benoit Mandelbrot is running a close second these days, probably cause I'm reading one of this books.

 

[LordoftheLeftHand]

Sir Isaac Newton

 

[kmortis]

Ben Franklin wasn't a "Pure" scientist, but what he did in the scientific arena was really neat.

 

[insomneac]

Feynman. And Dexter; he has a great lab.

 

[ingoa]

Feynman and ...

P.A.M. Dirac ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac )
His books are IMHO the best physics books ever written.

Robert Koch ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koch ) is also one of the pillars of science.

and probably a thousand others.

For my girlfriend it's me. But there might be hidden motives behind THAT judgement. ;-)

 

[cbish]

Feynman?

Who's that?