Top 10 Influential Figures in Science and Technology
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2014
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If we're talking the history of science...Newton started the whole thing. Einstein made the most modern leap of imagination. However, Newton was laying the groundwork for physics, mathematics and chemistry at a time when no one really knew a what that was.
I think Tesla should be on the first or second spot. I think Einstein was a great mathematician and his accomplishment in nuclear science was groundbreaking but teslas contributions to electricity changed our world and means of communication afterwards.
Einstein was exceptional from all others because everyone solved the problems which have been asking and lookigs for many years, but Einstein answered which was never been asked or looked for. He redefined the physics
Yes bro Nikola Tesla is best scientist of all time ❤️❤️
@@safwansifat there is a tesla cult going on. Some people place him on top to feel special just like flat earthers. Not denying that tesla was truly genius and belongs in top 10 list. But he can’t be greatest scientist ever . That can only be either newton or einstien.
Tell me u don’t know anything about science without telling me you don’t know anything about science
Einstein changed our universe
Where is
James Clerk Maxwell
Michael Faraday
or Richard Feynman
Faraday wasn't much of a scientist as he was a engineer
@@iidentifyasatoaster7126 he's a scientist ffs. He proved newton's theory of gravity by his magnetic waves and laid the foundation for einstein's ideas.
Michael faraday should be there
yes i definitely understand words
They dint include
Aryabhatta (if they included Aristotle)
Ramanujan and many other Indian scientists...
I'm surprised no one has even mentioned Richard Feynman, his method of teaching quantumn mechanics was revolutionary
He’s one of my favorite authors, but top 10 scientists of all time? I don’t love this list but I’m not sure I’d put Feynman in the top 10.
@@harveydodd8803 he is hundred percent top ten in physics, he even made contributions in pure mathematics
@@harveydodd8803 He most certainly would be.
@@tiromandal6399 The list crowds pretty fast. Just the big five alone (Einstein, Darwin, Newton, Galileo, and Pasteur) doesn’t leave much room. After that, major visionaries like Tesla, Curie, Bohr, Heisenberg, Farraday, Maxwell, Copernicus, and Mendel. And that’s not even considering computer scientists nor any ancient scientists. Feynman is maybe top 20 and probably closer to top 25, not top 10 without any major historical revisionism.
@@harveydodd8803 No, top 20 is like Tesla.
Nikola Tesla only 7th??? Are you kidding me???
Well ya know...
Do you hear yourself
Thomas Edison should be in this list for inventing DC
For a reason. Or "hurrdurr Tesla invented free energy"?
Kelvin Seah No! Edison stole Tesla. Tesla once built a deadly ray and destroyed it because he knew it could be used for bad. He almost invented wireless. study about Tesla and Edison, a deep study, not a school study.
Should be
1. Newton
2. Einstein
3. Galileo. Can't believe he only got an honourable mention. His advancements in astronomy were astounding
@Tik Tok, and Twitter community s__k Change my mind no he didn’t, it was sarcasm
It's a travesty that Newton isn't first.
Totally agree Newton was far ahead of his time
Galileo should have been directly in the top 10, not the honorable mentions!!! He took Nicolas Copernicus' heliocentric theory, and proved it to be true!!!
Issac Newton is hands down the most important figure in the history of science. #3...? Seriously? And you put Aristotle and Einstein above him?
I profure Nicolaus Copernicus
Its sad that everyone cannot understand great work of Tesla everything with electricity is possible only because of him its so wrong that inventors get more preference than scientists.
don't forget Tesla invented the Wardenclyffe tower. A monument that would've given the world free electricity everywhere without cables as well as using the planet's atmosphere as a great grid for information (so a sort of baby internet) because he had discovered it could conduct electricity.
He will never get full recognition
Well said it's like society usually praises inventions more
How do I Look? You do know that Tesla had many great inventions that are used today. Most of the things used to give us electricity were made by him. Some example are the Tesla Coil, Wireless Telegraphy Vacuum Capacitors, the first versions of remote controls with signal waves. He just doesn’t get enough recognition which is a shame since he is so important and pretty much shaped the way we live today.
Everything with electricity? Do you know Faraday, Maxwell and Hertz, and people before these three like Benjamin Franklin, Volta, Ampere, Ohm? Without these established work, nobody afterwards would achieve anything. Btw, Tesla himself isn't even a good theorist at all.
Einstein ranking above Newton is just wrong imo. Einstein deserves all the hype he gets & it's true that general relativity is more logically fundamental than the Newtonian picture of the world but with all that said, Newton is still the greatest of all the scientists & it's not just because of his enormous contributions to physics - (he discovered laws of motion, the laws of optics, the dynamics of heat transfer, he's invented calculus to explain planetary motion, he discovered the law of gravity & connected it with both Galileo & Kepler's observations.... the list just goes on & on) - but because Newton was the first scientist in a modern sense and taught us how to think in a scientific way.
People before Newton were good at observation (Tycho Brahe), argumentation (Galileo), or theory (various philosophers). Newton brought together the synthesis that would become the Scientific Method. This is something extremely important about Newton's contribution to science. It's overlooked by most outside of science and is also overlooked by some within science, but it's extremely important to do science. Newton avoided assuming more than he had to. His contributions to physics per se were, of course, enormous, but they were secondary compared to his influence on how investigations were done by showing us how to do it right. His equations alone sent us to the moon. For that he deserves the top spot.
+Nameless Paladin Agree with you. I think Einstein may be the deepest mind in human history, however Newton is more influential because of what you siad
+Nameless Paladin Agreed. Newton created physics. And he was a great mathematician too! Einstein only had 1-2 revolutionary stoled by other scientists.
+Hunfootball he didn't create physics bit greatly expanded on it
Sorry to burst your bubble, but as much as Newton was a great scientist and mathematician, you kind of overrated him. He wasn't the first to discover gravity, or the laws of optics or the dynamics of heat transfer nor was the first to invent calculus, nor invent the scientific method. All of these contributions were done by previous scientists like: Alhazen Aka Ibn Al-Hayytham and other scientists.
+Mezzo Edbey He still should be #1.THIS CHANNEL IS FULL OF DOUCHE DUMMIES
They asked Einstein once '' How is it to be a genius?'' he answered ''You must ask Tesla for that.'' :)
You are absolutely right!!!!!!
I must be a genius then, because I know nothing about Jon Snow
+Luar Zaragoza ?
***** Ok
"He was asked on Record", how delusional that sounds. Was he interrogated by FBI on that occasion or what?
They forgot one important scientist, James Klerk Maxwell!
Yes
Neils Bohr should have been there
He should have been Number ONE, He Changed EVERYTHING! It's "Clerk" BTW! Cheers!
Man !
No Maxwell, Faraday, Feynman, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Watson & Crick, Jenner
These Watchmojo guys are some of the most non-unscientific folks out there !
Non-unscientific means scientific. You are one of the most non-ungrammatical folks out there. (But yea, they definitely aren’t the most scientific people out there.
Galileo deserved more than an honorable mention. His work on understanding motion and gravity, as well as the concept of mass made his shoulders the ones that Newton stood on. Above all, though, was his contribution to the Scientific Method, the mechanism on which all modern science depends. He accomplished these feats against the backdrop of Medieval persecution. He's a first ballot hall of famer, for sure.
Top 3.
Newton, the most incredible mind this world has ever seen.
Maxwell, he did the second reunification of physics. Do I need to say more?
Galois/Gauss. Galois invented the theory of groups ans Gauss developed so many théorèmes and even one of Maxwell's laws has his name.
I think this is created by non scientific people for sure :0
Agree
no doubt! Non scientific at all
No doubt... as much as I admire Leonardo... he's not one of the top 10 in science and technology... he was great but he didn't share his knowledge... And how in the blue hell - seriously... HOW - can anyone leave Heisenberg out of a top 10 influential scientists on youtube. Without him there'd be no youtube...PERIOD
For sure
@crazy knight teleported from medieval times This list could be made much better and it also had a couple of wrong facts here and there. That's all the guy was saying. As to your comment, you're kinda ignorant
Newton at 3 is a sin
Darwin should be WAAAAAAAAY higher on this list - he had what could be described as the best idea EVER.
Agreeed!
He’s a racist
Science and technology needs to be in separate categories.
exactly they think its the same smh
@@denariuswright8284 it's almost same
Because of science , we have technology
@@himanshusehra7484 actually Technology predates modern Science, but Modern technology post dates modern Science. Technology isn't just about electric devices....any tool used to do work is considered technology...the wheel, the boat, the wagon all predate modern Science but based on understanding of certain natural occurrences. Science and tech should be in different categories because they strive for different ambitions... Science about collective information on natural phenomenon and technology is about using machines to make human work easier (a door knob is technically considered technology)
@@denariuswright8284 I agree that in video they must be not associate science with technology but all the things that you are calling as technology was first traced by physicist television , computer chips , bulb every tech you see first have relation with mathematician and physicist and engineering is something like applying that beautiful equations , diagrams in a practical to made stuff that is technology
Shouldnt Newton be number 1? He helped develop calculus. Einstein is #2
Son do minh He also laid the foundations of "Physics".
Engliscan Warrior True, but I read a book about Einstein and now I realized that he is indeed more "influential" as he turned nearly all of physics as we know of upside-down.
Son do minh In my opinion, I think it's impossible to name who was the most Influential Scientist, as they all contributed in their own ways, and a lot of the things they discovered, wouldn't even exist without former geniuses who came before them. So, I would say it's more of a matter of opinion, but Einstein is definitely up there.
Engliscan Warrior I am sry... you are absolutely correct, this list shouldn't even exist and it should be renamed "most famous scientific figures of all time".
Son do minh Why exactly should Einstein be 2nd? There are people in this list who influenced world a lot more than this ''popular'' scientist
I feel like the honorable mentions could have gone on for another 10 minutes or so.
Dimiti Mendeleev, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, Endmund Halley, Antoine Lavoisier, Johannes Kepler, Ptolemy, Erwin Schroedinger, Werner Heisenberg, Robert Koch, Robert Hooke, Alexander Humboldt, Gregor Mendel, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Lord Kelvin, James Chadwick, Ludwig Boltzmann, Edwin Hubble, Humphry Davy, James Clerk Maxwell, Henry Cavendish, Alfred Nobel... and these are just ones that I can think of off the top of my head
Honourable mentions are 11 to 15
Daniel Bowdery
What are you trying to say with that comment?
I know they had a lot of honorable mentions, my point is that there could have easily been more that are at least as important as the people on the list
J.J. Thomson?
thelastgermanfan he is trying to say that we know and watchmojo knows that there are more than 15 scientists of the world, but their lists never have more that 15 people. 10 in the top 10, and 5 in the HM. they had to make a choice about who made the cut, and they choose this.
So yes there a lots of people who are as important as the ones in this list, but they didn't had enough space for all of them, so they were cut.
boosiv
ok, that makes sense, I guess
Stephen Hawking not even being an honorable mention on the list is a downright shame. He is today, by far, the greatest living physicist/scientist on planet Earth. Also, the Wright brother's ahead of Tesla? Dream on Wathmojo.
Agreed that he should have gotten an honorable mention, but by no means is he the greatest living scientist on the planet, he is just the biggest celebrity... very big difference.
Jon Que Who would you put above Hawking as greatest living scientist?
Bert Ernie Super difficult question as scientists have a vast array of fields and thus discoveries and inventions. While I'll try not to minimize Mr Hawking's research, it is that which is based on the theories of black holes which has had very little to no effect on the general population. On the other hand many scientists who are alive today are making our lives easier or safer or discovering/laying new foundations to science. ie Peter Higgs, Fred Sanger (Died last year), Andre Geim, Alex Grothendieck the list could go on; however, these scientists don't get the recognition in the general public because there is nothing "special" about them.
Yeah... Although Stephen Hawking is a great physicist with very innovative ideas and important contributions to Cosmology, I don't see how his work can compare in importance and influence with the scientists in the list.
why should he be? telle me
I'm actually related to Sir Issac Newtin. My granny took out ancestory and showed me a few years back.
YOU ARE REALATED TO GOD!!????
How closely? Wikitree tells me he's my 6th cousin 11 times removed. Which isn't really that close at all lol
again no eastern people mention they completely ignore them,well its part of your cultural conditioning,and also it is a english media channel.
There aren’t any African people either are there? Also this is most influential and frankly
The guys on this list are hard to beat.
It's entirely possible that eastern people didn't contribute highly enough.. it doesn't have to be a prejudice thing
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Actually, the creator of airplanes is Santos Dumont. The brothers have made their model a little bit after Dumont's fly in Paris
How is Tesla only number 7? He should be at least number 3 or 4.
Ernest Rutherford: Theory of Radioactive Decay
Dmitri Mendeleev
I hate when they put #1 in the thumbnail
Honestly did you think it would be anyone else
Newton was far the greatest. And John von Neumann can be mentioned too (game theory, computer).
Einstein was exceptional from all others because everyone solved the problems which have been asking and lookigs for many years, but Einstein answered which was never been asked or looked for. He redefined the physics
@@safwansifat are you kidding me?
@@safwansifat lol newton had discovered all these things when there is no base of science newton is way more superior and influential than einstein
Newton should be #1. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is considered to be the most influential book in the history of science. Newton’s stature among scientists remains at the very top rank, as demonstrated by a 2005 survey of scientists in Britain’s Royal Society asking who had the greater effect on the history of science, Newton was deemed much more influential than Albert Einstein.
I know you copy and pasted this because I used the exact same thing for a school project on his significance haha
Yeah barely any normal person can explaine relativity, but everyone knows what gravity is. And the doscovery of gravity has been so much more usefull than relativity which is pretty much only used for theoretical purposes as of now, plus relativity is based around ideas of gravity.
Namir Khaliq you know that gps's depend on relativity because of their movements far above earth
I agree, Newton stays my favorite scientist/inventor as he has so many significant contributions to Math, Physics and although his discoveries are a pain to study, they definitely are worth researching and rightly deserving the #1 spot!
Yeah yeah yeah(a REM reference). Isaac Newton certainly is influential to my life considering I'm taking Physics. X_X
Beyond the top 10, I would add Karl Benz, for the first self powered vehicle, revolutionizing the transport industry. Rudolph Diesel also deserves recognition for creating the diesel engine principal.
Oh, and lets not forget Wernher von Braun's contributions to rocketry and space exploration!
Von Braun?! get out man! If one rocket science deserves the spot it's Robbert H. Goddard! von Braun would be nothig without Goddard's work
enterprise0709 also, von braun worked for the nazis and them came over to the allies when he was endangered. So he's a coward and now a so-called "war hero"
***** Von Braun layed down the ground work for the NASA, there wouldn't be a 'merican on the moon without him. Plus he turned the concept of an Rocked (which as mentioned existed before) into something that actually worked. He was no hero but clearly ahead of his time and deserves recognition.
*****
He would have been stupid not to take the Nazi's funding and support back then, it was the only way he was going to launch his career (no pun intended ;)
They are not scientist but inventors
Stephen Hawking really really deserves a spot
I think that too, although his studies are basically based on Einstein xD. But Steve should tho!
Atleast an honorable mention. Though he is a very famous and very inteligent scientist he has throughout his life mainly focused on one subject that has not furthered science particularly. Although he has explained much of how strange astronomical objects act.
that's delusional. He wouldnt make the top 100 .
No he doesn't, he is really famous but he is not that important
petove This is a list about INFLUENCE and I'd say Stephen Hawking is pretty influential...
Tesla only 7?...it drives me crazy how underrated he is
I was annoyed too. Tesla should 1.
Why should he . The was way more better then him . Calm down
Relax, he's,barely top 10, he's not touching even Darwin, let alone Neeton or Einstein
Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He lived between 276 BC and 194 BC. He's best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth. Which is pretty cool seeing as he had no technology other than a meter long stick.
What about Werner Heisenberg ? His work was really important and helped proclaming the quantum physics theory by establishing the quantum mechanics.
You're godamn right
I really think Michael Faraday should have had a high place on this list. His contributions to science and technology have changed and shaped the world we know today.
Tesla has such a unique look to him. He seems like a person who is smart and thorough in every aspect of science, culture or whatever. Might just be charisma but it seems like he's a lot more profound in some ways.
If Tesla or Newton aren't #1, I'm losing faith in humanity.
Jamie Rodriguez Well, we've lost faith.
Tesla is a genius but nowhere in the same league as Newton or Eisntein in my opinion. However some of these scientists should definitely be behind him.
Also Newton should be number 1 by far. Einstein second
I agree with you
@@wachtwoorden2 no einstien
Charles Darwin pretty much put the basics for biology in place an solved the great question where humans came from. He shouldve been at least number 3.
i expected Tesla to be in the top 3! the guy was a genus, but most of his ideas and inventions were censored by the government due to the fear that filled the tiny minds of powerful men. when interviewers asked Albert Einstein "how does it feel to be the smartest man alive?" Einstein replied " I don't know. you'd have to ask Nikola Tesla" the guy was a GENUIS
Yea, Tesla is, IMO, the most brilliant human to ever live. Sad no one knows this
I agree. Nikola created wireless and free energy.
Brownie that quote was made up, einstein did not say that.
@@chripranqe shut up moron...
He was being sacarstic
Einstein at 1 makes sense to me. General relativity is one of the greatest scientific "theories"/breakthroughs that I'm aware of. Not only that, but to this day we are still proving some of his theories right, like gravitational waves. That is pretty incredible. I personally would put Tesla higher and include Stephen Hawking somewhere.
But it has no role in science or technology.
@@pranayjha9224 What are you talking about? You mean Einstein's theory?
@@danielabraham5901 about general relativity.
Einstein's general relativity is very important for the future development of science.The reason it hasn't contributed sp much to technology is only bcuz we still aren't advanced enough to really travel space and etc
@@lawmsanga-jh8sj That's a fair point.
So the orders should be like this
1. Newton
2. Tesla
3. Einstein
4. Curie
and so on
The problem with this list is that for example Gutenberg wasn't really a scientist, more like an engineer.
Exacltly. I dont think he should be on the list. It is even contested if he even infented mechanical printing. Chinese (Pi Chang) did it long before (although a different, less optimal method). But there is also a very good Dutch (Laurens Janszoon Coster) claim on the printing press, just a few years before Gutenberg.
This video isn't call top ten scientists, it's called top ten influential influences on science AND technology and the printing press was a very important piece of technology
Where's Bruce Wayne/Batman
Fuck dat, where's Tony Stark?!
Are you fucking kidding me?
Olórin356 yes
He is in the top ten list of most influential figues in your imagination O.o
WarEagle33x
What
First Watchmojo list I totaly agree with!
Top 3:
1) Newton
2)Einstein
3)Tesla
I agree with that 3. Tesla deserves at least third place. Right behind Newton and Einstein. Tesla made one of the most massive contributions to the modern world. All tho its hard to decide how to place all three of them.
But if it has to be a top ten line
1)Newton
2)Einstein
3)Tesla is most reasonable.
Aditya Datta Einstein didn't create relativity theory , it was created by Henry Poincarre . Einstein didn't know Mathematics nor Phisics to make this.
derci ferreira Didn't know the math or physics? The guy understood college level physics, and mastered integral and differential calculus by age 15! The autopsy of his brain showed that certain regions of his brian were fine tuned to imagination, and logic. He certainly could've come up with such a theory.
Yes, he didn't know the math or physics ENOUGH. mástering integral and differential calculus is not a big thing ,I mastered them alone at 13! he plagiarized it from Poincarre everything from e=mc2 to the name relativity,.He read Poincarre work, He was the worst scientist ever he made several mistakes showing he didn't know the math. do you Know tensor calculus. it's very strange he rewrote it using tensors but he didn't know tensors, he had to study tensor with tensor creator Ricci Curbastro, after he published it?
at that time more than 100 scientists supported Poincarre, saying Einstein plagiarized him, but Einstein was phenomenon of media. His IQ was 160, mine is 190.
derci ferreira Can you prove your IQ is 190. Becouse i know people with a lot lower IQ then you and a lot larger then most people. And they dont brag about the level of your intelect. Show me proof of your IQ and then you can be a youtube warrior. What is some one with the IQ of 190 doing on youtube trying to disgard Einstein? What did you invent? Were you ever on television as some one who has an IQ of 190?
sorry man. But your really not proving any thing.
Who's make this top tens?! Da Vinci should be 2nd at least. Guttenberg better than him and archimede?!
I must agree.
Newton was the man. Can you imagine inventing calculus in the time it takes most college undergrads to learn it, before the age of thirty? He Einstein and DaVinci are personal heroes. Poor Tesla, though, was screwed by Edison(bastard)
Arguable... There is the Gottlieb Leibniz controversy for calculus... but ya.. Newton is pretty influential especially for his work with classical mechanics.
fun fact: Newton ordered to destroy Leibniz's work on calculus. Not many proofs on that, though Cambridge students still tell the same story til this day.
hb0x Another fun fact: Newton destroyed the only known painting and destroyed the reputation of Robert Hooke, inventor of the first microscope, after a bitter dispute between the two over Newton using part of Hooke's work to formulate the theory of gravity.
AdamZelyoni Yup, I knew that, and all I can say is there is a fine line between genius and madness ;-)
I respect him for his towering intellect and contributions to physics, not necessarily his weird theology, temper, or beleif in alchemy, lol
Max plank ,Niels Bhor ,Shrodinger ,Feynman, Gauss...all of these people are great scientists but there is a lot to fit in just one list , good list though.
Richard Feynman had a profound impact not only on me, but also on many other aspiring young physicists! Also would have been nice to see the likes of Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Dirac, and Maxwell!
+electrocat1 Heisenberg did revolutionize the narcotic manufacturing industry. jk jk
Definitely Richard P. Feynman, I love him.
Smile4thekillcam456 me too!
Nah. Never really liked biology.
Rawandi If we're going to use that logic, we'd be going all the way back to the beginning of the universe.
definitely astrophysics
Darwin number 10? he should be in top 3!
Yeah! Without him, we wouldn't have Pokémon!
Maxwell was one of the brightest men ever, and at least deserved a mention. If you are into science, you'll notice that it's near impossible to make a top 10. For example the three guys that invented the transistor made all the digital electronics we take for granted today.
Fleming for the discovery of Penicillin, Watt for the development and commercialisation of steam power, Maxwell for the development of the laws and equations describing all electromagnetic waves
I would have added Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun. He was a German rocket engineer and space architect. He was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany during World War II and, subsequently, in the United States. He also authored many science fiction and non fiction books. His crowning achievement was to lead the development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the Moon in July 1969.[3] In 1975 he received the National Medal of Science. The sum total of his accomplishments makes von Braun the most influential rocket engineer and spaceflight advocate of the twentieth century
Everything he did was based on the groundbreaking work of American physist, professor and rocket pioneer Rober Huchkings Goddard who created the first liquid fuel rocket and predicted the moon landing in the 1920s. Truly, a revolutionary man.
Alexander Graham Bell, Darwin should have been alot higher, Einstein shouldn't have been that high. Wright brothers shouldn't even have been there, Hawking should have atleast been mentioned. Pythagoras should have been there aswell and Openhaimer should have ATLEAST had an honorable mention listing.
Alexander Graham Bell was nothing more than a patent thief.
GlassMufasa how come?
Henning .Markussen www.cracked.com/article_16072_5-famous-inventors-who-stole-their-big-idea.html
I wouldn't say that's a credible source
Henning .Markussen No, it's not. But it sums up the situation. But the fact is that a patent for a working telephone was already filed and Bell had connections to the patent office. Being that Bell had never invented anything on the scale of telephone previously or afterwards is damning to me.
Must admit I am missing Niels Bohr on this list. At least he deserved a place in the honorable mentions
With Heisenberg, von Neumann, Ramanujan, Gödel, Oppenheimer, Lemaître, Dirac, and so on.
Pasteur changed medicine with the discovery with germ theory! He deserved more than just an honourable mention!
Instagram username??
I think we also owe John Dalton a nod, for discovering the basic particle of matter.
Carl Sagan? Just saying...
Hmm..let's see, SETI...don't see anything else that would put him on the list
TooFastTooDoge Cosmos?
TooFastTooDoge Well if we discover aliens it will be bloody important.
Sagan's work was mostly theoretical than applied...
TooFastTooDoge Sagan is definitely one of the top 10 most influential figures in science. he has inspired millions. and some of those he inspired (tyson, nye) have gone on to inspire millions more.
Go google what Michael Faraday discovered.
And Dimitri Mendeleev
Thank you for putting Tesla on the list in lieu of Edison! Obviously both deserve credit/mention on a list like this, however Tesla does not get enough love for his numerous contributions! Thank you!
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〽 Albert Einstein
☄lssac Newton
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Thought Steven Hawking should deserve an Honourable Mention.
His theories and whatnot are astounding, but they don't really affect everyday life like these guys did.
Professor Oak: Pokédex.
Von Neumann should have been included, he was the greatest mathematician of the XXth century. Just look at his list contributions: he practically pioneered two scientific fields (game theory and computer science), made important contributions to mathematical physics and was a polymath. People who knew him, including prominent scientists of his time, almost unilaterally agreed that he had the best mind of them all. It is truly amazing when you read about his intellect, he was as close to superhuman intelligence as you can get. It is unfortunate Von Neumann is not highly well-known among general audience, he was one the most influential and brilliant scientists of the XXth century.
1Newton
2Einstein
3Tesla.
Actually you can put any of them in the top 3. there contribution to since in general is un deniable
I am still thinking Nikola Tesla Should be No1
Aristotle does NOT deserve to be on this list. Most of his ideas were detrimental to science. Newton should be at least #2. Also, while I'm glad they gave the real credit to da Vinci for inventing the scientific method, Galileo needs to be much higher for making it so widely known. And Alan Turing only gets an honorable mention? The man who laid the groundwork for the computer technology upon which we are all viewing this video? Should be much higher. Also, Schrodinger and Heisenberg aren't even mentioned? And a huge Western bias, none of the great scientists from India like Narayan and Chandrasekhar? Or the Chinese or Arabian mathematicians? Sorry, no, this list is crap.
But Da Vinci didn't invent the scientific method. Alhzen did.
Shawn Toner btw da vinci means, quite literally, "of Vinci", his town of birth, not his second name.
Stephen Hawking isn't even an honourable mention. Why?
And what about Tim Berners-Lee.
maybe cause he hasn't proved anything yet. And i don't understand what leonardo da vinci is doing in the list.
Ashutosh Singh are you kidding. Divinci was a genius, he invented so much. He basically invented robotics
Proof isn't a requirement of this list. Darwin never proved natural selection and the concept of evolution predates Darwin by over a hundred years. I was surprised to see DaVinci and no mentions of Mendel or Watson and Crick. Dawkins' Selfish Gene is a seminal piece and at least should get a mention for his obstinate stance against his critics. Oh, and Newton should have been first in my opinion.
Hawkin hasn't done much. He's just a smart man.
Sir issac newton should be on top
What ? No Christopher Hitchens ? We was the greatest man alive ! The world was one way then Christopher Hitchens came and it was another ! A bunch of people, mainly drunk teenage haters, say so on RUclips ! Mojo, yo' tripping !
Great thinker, a great man, but not a scientist.
Haha until your 2 last sentences I thought your comment was a serious one. And as Eric said before me. great man but not a scientist.
But not just drunk teenagers say so. He among with some others, as Dawkins, started the great Atheist movement which will finally (and hopefully) get rid of all these ridiculous God Ideas. Which will change the world we know.
Gian-Marco Moder Man, I like your comment but for the second last sentence. Sure, talk about your views. Sure, have some arguments about faith. But don't be such an ass. ("Ridiculous" is what I'm talking about $fi you're wondering.)
Gian-Marco Moder what idea about god is ridiculous and what part of the belife in god has dawkins or chris hishits has managed to disprrov by the way? please tell me. how did everything come out of nothing?
Ciarán Mcgannon I know it's offensive. But like Hitchens said. Yo can treat Religion just with ridicule to actually make them think.
I don't want to diminish anyone else on this list, but Darwin should be higher.
He pretty much established biology, when before him the extent of the study of living things had only been that animals and plants were cataloged.
HOWEVER, Alfred Wallace should place on the list beside him. They had pretty much the same data/theories between them, during the same time, and had to some extent shared their information.
Edit: I realize some people will downvote because they're religious, but I am too, and i study biology in university. There's definitely cause to thank Darwin and co.
I agree. Darwin is the closest we get to knowing what we are. (Which pisses off a lot of religious people... doesn't really hurt now does it^^)
So all we do in science, we partly very indirectly owe to Darwin and his collegues. it would have been possible without them, but a betterunderstanding of what we are (intelligent, developed animals) might be the most fundamental thing of them all. What can we really understand without understanding ourselves? ;-)
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OK total popularity contest. If you ask people in STEM, Einstein was good but not necessarily the greatest Scientist of all time; while it can be argued that his idea of nuclear fission (E=MC^2) did lead to the development of the greatest peace keeping weapon of all time, there are other more scientists that deserve equal amounts of praise. I feel that many people who have done work that has literally changed the face of this society but do not get credit. List of scientists:
1. Turing - broke Enigma Code; father of modern Computer Science (if you haven't seen Imitiation Game, its fantastic) (also I know he is an honorable mentioned but he deserves more)
2. Jack Kilby/Robert Noyce - invented the Integrated Circuit (basically why a computer fits in your pocket)
3. Vincent Cerf/Bob Kahn - Fathers of the internet (more than just these 2 men but still)
4. John T. Parsons - CNC Milling Machine
5. Dennis Ritchie - inventor of C programming language and UNIX OS
6. Jonas Salk - inventor of the polio vaccine; revolutionized modern medicine
7. Watson/Crick - created the model of DNA (did more than charles darwin)
8. Bell Labs/FORD/IBM/Salk Institute - not an individual but a company; much of what we know about the modern world can be attributed to these companies.
I understand this has become a rant, but there a countless men and women who have changed the world with their work. Nikolai Tesla for example sought a way to provide the world with free energy and it drove to change the world. I don't think it is too much to take a moment to acknowledge this. Please add any people who you think deserve to be up here. (PS: anyone says "Steve Jobs" and not "Steve Wozniak" I will flip out)
Where is patricia bath and gertrude ellion? Where is lisa meitner and rosalind franklin? Those woman contribute to science and made something which we use still now.
I think Darwin should've been higher than number 10
Explain me why Tesla isnt no 1?
Kurt Godel’s Incompleteness theorem of mathematics is the single greatest achievement of the human mind. This is a man that made Einstein stay in academia just to walk home with him and a man that had Von Neumann turned into his spokesman.
+nuno bartolo I would put Euler in front of him only because of the influential factor.
what an amazing and incredible people,all top 10
We all know that Tesla, Newton and Einstein and are in top 3, you decide the order.
Newton and Einstein of course, Tesla is not even close.
1.Newton
2.Einstien
3.Tesla
@@utkarshpandey6424 Tesla is so far of the 3rd position, there are a lot of scientist who did more things than Tesla
Third position I would put to Galileo Galilei
Tesla is the most overrated “scientist” (actually an engineer) of all time.
niels bohr come on quantum physics. he should of at least got an honorable mention.
So as you would make lists on top 10 rock stars or top 10 rap artists, but not top 10 musicians, just go make a list on top 10 mathematicians, top 10 physicist,... There's just way too less space in a top 10 list to honor enough important people
I'm glad they included Turing, though he's only in the honorable mentions.
In my opinion, this list is redundant. These great minds in science and technology should all be praised equally as they have all played a great part in forming our today's knowledge. Still a great video to watch, don't get me wrong, I just don't think it fulfilled its purpose! ;)
nice thumbnail
flabberghast Agreed.
agree...Should be a separate list for science and for technology...would love have seen Richard Feynman's name in there somewhere, too.
Every one thinks E=mc^2 is something really hard... Its one of the simplest formulas in the world (that's why its so great) It literally means:
"The energy of something is iqual to the mass of the object times the speed of light squared". It give how much "impact" somethig going at the speed of light has
Yup, and i like to say that until people dont know what a scientist truly did ,then why do they hail them.
Actually, it has nothing to do with "impact". The equation shows that energy and matter are "the same thing", or that matter can be converted into energy and vice versa. The speed of light is a constant that gives the huge amount of energy that is contained in just a little bit of matter.
The conversion between matter into energy is commonly used nowadays in nuclear power plants, for example. It is also the principle of how nuclear bombs work. The opposite conversion (energy into matter) though has yet to be controlled in laboratory.
I know. I tried to make it easy to understand. Many people have a hard time understanding exactly what energy can mean in this cases, That's why I used the word "impact"
nezkaslogowickt The "m" is for mass, not matter. The implication of E=mc^2 is also that if you add energy to something, its mass increases. For example, heat up a piece of matter, and its mass increases, since it contains more energy.
But also, it sets the universal speed limit, lightspeed. As you accelerate an object, its kinetic energy starts increasing exponentially, which increases its mass and makes it heavier to accelerate. When you hit 99.99999% of lightspeed (or so), you'd need more energy than exists in the entire universe to accelerate it any further. So getting an object to lightspeed requires an infinite amount of energy.
So simple yet no one before figured it out. It is easy to say something is simple when you already know of the simplicity.
For some odd reason I feel like reading a scifi book now
I would have put Fermi higher on this list than an heritable mention because of the aftermath of his work on the atomic bomb, and because of how important nuclear technology is becoming.
Einstein 8,tesla 2, and Newton is 1
what? why :D That might be the case when it comes to everyday technology, but Einstein has paved the way to things that will be the pillars of mankind for thousands of years to come. I'm refering to Tesla mostly though. Newton could definitely be higher.
What about Michael Faraday?
Not too many people ever oppose the torture chamber we endure, and this is flattering our tormentors and saying to them: The torture chamber you have created for beings that never asked to be brought here is justified. People accept the chamber as being normal like there is nothing wrong with deceiving people and then punishing them for acting on the deception. We are condoning our own fate. However, the benevolent scientists will question such actions and even try to prevent them, if, even, it being just an act of protest. Only us vegans see some truth, and that's the reason we do choose not to become bullies like the ones who put the weak less facilitated, less intelligent, species in torment. Instead, the vegan scientists wants to send a message to the tormentors of creatures: We oppose your insanity. We cannot see you, but we can protest by choosing not to accept your insanity as being the norm. Furthermore, a great scientist not only develops ways to make life better, he/she will also seek to find ways to stop torment on all creatures. For example, the Ichthyologists should not just study fish; rather, he/she should also seek to find ways to emancipate them from their torment. The entomologists should not just study the insects; rather, he/she should seek to find ways to emancipate them from their torment. ETC. Why? Because in doing so, he/she is making a profound statement against their own torment. Indeed, we should never view something as "just being nature" and leave it alone because one day, we, ourselves, must endure the torture chamber. Instead of embracing insanity as being acceptable, we should be seeking to make our point: Harming/Tormenting anything is wrong, and we object to it!
You simply can't forget Maxwell....
Euclid was the greatest and most influential ancient matematician not Archimedes
damn thats a tough list, so many great thinkers, but i still think that darwin should have ben placed higher up ;)
Let's appreciate the fact these humans genuinely wanted to explore space time and physics as pioneers and it was all documented real heroes
im just watching this for my hw bc i have a presentation due tomorrow and i need a scientist to write about
There is no way Einstein was more influential than Newton and Aristotle. He's just more popular. And he didn't even consider the theory of relativity revolutionary himself, in fact, he thought of it as an expansion of Maxwell's and Newton's laws.
No matter what he thought. It is revolutionary.
Who is not lazy, research about Santos Dumont and the Aviation. He suffered the same injustice as Tesla compared to Edison. Dumont is the real inventor of airplane.
Rembrandt Dassen Yes, for sure.
Everyone knows of the formula E=mc^2 but not many know the actual formula: EK = (m0 x c^2)/(1-(v^2/c^2)) -m0c^2Or even E= pc
What about Srinivasa Ramanujan? He came up with so many theories and equations and formulas people are still trying so decipher some of them.
number 9: Santos Dumont
fix'd.
Personally I think Darwin deserved a much
higher spot.
Isaac Newton should've been #1 if the criteria is 'influence'. He invented calculus and that's not even his most influential achievement!
They also didn't include Tsai Lun who invented paper. Big mistake.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin which revolutionized the surgery and medicine. Jabir Ibn Hayan invented the Sulphuric Acid, which is the most known and the most used acid today. Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio which also revolutionized the communications as well as Al Zahrawi invented too many surgical instruments, many of which are still in use to this day. All of these absolutely deserved a spot on list or at least in honorable mentions.
+Farhan Khurram - Tesla invented the radio and Marconi stole the patent. Tesla has finally been given credit for inventing the radio.