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I'll never understand why Americans automatically assume Alexander Graham Bell was American, no more than they assume John Logie Baird, who invented the television wasn't American either. Do they teach that all these inventors has to be American?
Because so many move to the largest unified market to market their inventions, some end up thinking these people were born there.
@@FilipWinter American education system at it's best
@@FilipWinter The US was not the 'largest unified market', when many of these inventions and discoveries were made, so this is not the answer.
They also credit Edison with inventing the lightbulb and also see the automobile as an American invention, when in reality it was a German invention. They also see the computer as an American invention, even though the first programmable computer was a British invention, the first electronic programmable computer was a British invention and the theoretical groundwork for modern computing was laid down by Turing, hence his title as the Father of Modern Computing.
And they won both world wars on their own didn’t you know that.
Fun fact; Alexander Fleming had a son who was my GP as a child and very well respected.
Another fan fact. His grandson was a doctor at the surgery in Haverhill when I lived there
@@alanmahoney167 That one I knew, he was also GP to my cousin and her husband.
I love the fact that there are some people in the US, such as yourself, actively trying to fight the Dunning-Kruger effect. Hats off to you Sir and great reaction
If we're talking about impact then James Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday both belong on this list ahead of a few of these.
Without Maxwell we wouldn't have Einstein's theories of relativity. He also took the worlds first colour photograph!
@@MeFreeBee Absolutely. Max Planck was heavily influenced by Maxwell too when developing quantum theory.
Where he belongs on the list is subjective of course but personally, I'd have him just behind Darwin and Newton (who I'd put the opposite way around to this list).
Great scientists are greatly influenced by those who have gone before them. For example Newton by Keppler, Copernicus and Galileo.
@@howarddavies8937You forgot that Kepler entirely based his work on observations from Tycho Brahe. Brahe was an excellent astronomer and revolutionized astronomy, but wasn't strong at math. Kepler was a mathematician and worked from Brahe's observations.
You got a like for the disappointed face of Bell being British. Gold!
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor. He was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Later, he became a naturalized citizen of both Canada and the United States, having moved to North America in the 1870s.
Nonsense. There was no such thing as 'Canadian Citizenship' until 1947. Bell was a 'British Subject' until he took up American U.S. citizenship in 1882.
@@MichaelRogers-et8dqBell remained a British subject all his life. Dual nationality was possible in the USA.
Marie Curie were born in Poland but lived in France.
You’re forgiven for thinking Alexander Graham Bell was American, after all your public telephone system was called The Bell System, I also believe he emigrated to the US.
Lots in the US think Hawking was Amerocan due to hes choice of an American accent on hes voice computer ..he had a great sense of humor 😅
I don't think it was a choice at the beginning but as he had gotten used to it, he kept it, even though he'd been offered a change to a British accented version.
Karl pilkington too.
That's the American level of intelligence 😂
@@101steel4 I never thought it was yank e As I could understand every word
Humour*
English is English. Not American
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 you are correct there’s no such thing as American language is there but knowing the yanks they will say they invented it sooner or later
My friend, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, therefore he was Scottish!! he was a Brit and we are very proud of him.
Okay, but:
He didn't invent the telephone
Proof
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone
Quote of the day "Ooh! Ah! Euh! Radar?" Marie Curie was Polish by birth, but spent much of her life in France. And yes, mouldy bread and (I think) mouldy yoghourt were used to treat wounds before anyone knew why they worked. It was Fleming who isolated the cause. There are plenty of others who didn't make the list despite being brilliant: Faraday, Hooke, Hoyle, Trevithick, Brunel, Priestley, Babbage, Lovelace, Anning, Dalton, Owen... For an evolution theory that was forerunner of Darwin's and the basis for much of his work, look up Jean Baptiste Lamarcke.
Ada Lovelace, the second most interesting thing about her is that she was the illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron.
marie currie discovered radium and polonium i think
"Curie" - Polish
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie - born in Warszawa (Warsaw) - naturalised French - married to Pierre Curie from Paris.
Te obvious omission is James Clark Maxwell, of whom Einstein said he "stood on the shoulders of". Discover of the laws of electromagnetism. Also Dirac, Faraday, Joule
Bessemer, Watt, Trevithick, Stevenson, Brunel, Darby, Tull, Halley, Wallace, Babbage, Lovelace... the list goes on and on and on.
Marie Curie was Polish but became, through marriage, a naturalised French woman.
I agree, surely Faraday and James Clark Maxwell should be among the top ten!
There's a blue plaques to Joule in Manchester. Apparently he was the son of a Salford Brewer.
Robert Watson-Watt is credited with inventing radar.
I believe he was a meteorogist ( Pardon my spelling, weatherman)
On the runup to WW2 he was asked about a "death ray".
He knew it wasn't possible but he knew about strange happenings to a strong broadcast transmitter as something went past.
He (and his colleagues) said no death ray but we can give you something to detect them early
How Freeman Dyson, Ada Lovelace, Frank Whittle isn't on this list I'll never know....but to be fair we have sooooooo many to choose from any top 10 would will be an injustice :)
Agreed. + James Clerk Maxwell
@@peterrauth118 Maxwell was my number one choice for scientist missing from this list, with Frank Whittle second.
Sir Alec Jeffreys. The impact his DNA discoveries have had on crime solving and family issues is staggering.
Connor you should look into alan turing he also broke the enigma code and he wasn't treated right by uk all because he was gay.... i always remember at school sir issac newton told us why a apple falls down from the sky and not up.
He wasn't treated well by the UK's government, not it's people; a later UK Government made a formal apology to Turing's family for this.
And anti-gay laws were common back then, for example: In the US, during the 1950s, McCarthyism resulted in state and nationwide witch hunts of male “homosexuals” and it was not until 2003 that US Supreme Court made it fully legal.
The Polish military intelligence department who actually did the groundwork breaking Enigma might disagree with you.
The LHC was to look for lots of things The Higgs boson was postulated as having to be to fit with existing models of atoms. It was discovered to be true during a LHC experiment
Magots and Leeches are actually still used sometimes. They are medical grade.
The reason for building the collider was to find evidence of the theorised Higgs' Boson particle. That evidence was found and so Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
MANY of these theorised particles have not been evidenced to that point and are still placeholders for something that might be.
It was about finding explaining mass particles for gravity, right?
The point about some of these particles is that in physics they may not actually find the particle but they can observe and measure the effect that the particle has.
Marie Chris was Polish born Maria Salomea Sklodowaska-Curie and she was a naturalized French scientist. Maggots are used in medicine, mostly in wounds. They are tiny initially and put in the wound where they are bandaged over and left for a few days and they clean the rotten flesh , skin and scabs by eating it. They are much bigger when no longer needed. Fleming discovered Penicillin after leaving bread on a plate and studied what was happening with the mould. I hope you were not eating if you read this😊✌
Fleming was married to a Greek woman: it was known in Greece at that time bread mould had curative powers. My Greek ex's father was aware of this & knew the wife. I do not know if he knew Fleming.
As regards to Fleming. Discovered is the key word here... there are notable others as side from Fleming that have gotten lost in history.
Fleming discovered the effect of penicillin, but he didn't develop it into a useful antibiotic, in fact it remained nothing more than a laboratory curiosity for years.
What made the difference was the work of Howard Florey (a brilliant chemist), Ernst Chain and colleagues at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. It was they that produced, at great effort, the first batch of penicillin. It was they that turned penicillin into a practical pharmaceutical and treated the very first patients.
The Nobel prize for the invention of penicillin as an antibiotic was shared by three people:
Alexander Fleming (who discovered it), Howard Florey (who did the clinical trials and so much work on producing it as an antibiotic) and Ernst Chain who helped Florey.
Also, another unsung hero was Norman Heatley who developed the back-extraction technique for efficiently purifying penicillin so it could be produced in bulk.
Fleming gets all the praise, but without all these other people, well... it would've just be something "interesting".
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The Podbielniak centrifugal liquid-liquid extractor was also important in efficiently extracting penicillin from fermenter broth. You get big losses of penicillin if you don't do the extraction very quickly, and the intensified, centrifugal extractor is very good at fast extraction. (Although Podbielniak was American).
7:44 An important thing to note is that in Darwins day, 99.9999999999% of the planet hadn't visited another country. It wouldn't have entered peoples heads.
Not true, but it might easily have been 99% of people had never left their country except to fight in wars.
@@occamraiser That is some hardcore nitpicking there mate! 🤭
You don't need to explain what the numbers after the decimal point mean, although I know you're desperate to. We all know.
Charles Darwin died in the 1880's. How many world wars occurred prior to that mobilising millions of troops?
I exaggerated to make a point. You contested it purely based on mathematics without really thinking about the point in time that Darwins voyage occurred. My exaggerated calculation is probably closer to the truth than yours.
Alan Turing wrote a paper in the early 1930's when he was at Oxford titled "On computable numbers" where he theorised a machine which we now call a computer. However, the man who designed and built what is considered the world's first electronic computer was Tommy Flowers, an engineer who worked for the GPO, now BT, on using valves in automated telephone exchanges.
That's why hindsight is 20/20
Also research of a nuclear weapon also started in the Uk Leo Szilard was waiting to cross the road near Russell Square in London when the idea came to him. It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 135,000 people.
The path from Szilard’s idea to its deadly realisation is one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of science and technology. It features an extraordinary cast of characters, many of them refugees from Fascism who were morally opposed to the bomb but driven by the dreadful prospect of Nazi Germany getting there first.
Szilard himself was a Hungarian-born Jew who had fled Germany for the UK two months after Adolf Hitler became chancellor. He arrived in a country that was then at the forefront of nuclear physics. James Chadwick had just discovered the neutron and Cambridge physicists soon “split the atom”. They broke a lithium nucleus in two by bombarding it with protons, verifying Albert Einstein’s insight that mass and energy were one and the same, as expressed by the equation E = mc2.
Szilard’s eureka moment was based on this groundbreaking experiment. He reasoned that if you could find an atom that was split by neutrons and in the process emitted two or more neutrons, then a mass of this element would emit vast amounts of energy in a self-sustaining chain reaction.
Marie Curie was Polish
You are right
She invented radium used in cancer treatments.
@@janolaful*discovered radium.
And sadly died from the substance which she discovered and worked with...(I think ?) 😢
@@brigidsingleton1596 yup! Her note books are still kept under lock and key, as they’re radioactive!
Tbh, Newton should be number 1. There are also some notable omissions, sucher as Jenner (invented vaccines), Rutherford (Lord Kelvin), Boyle, Harvey, Baird, Swan, Maxwell etc. Maxwell is a very surprising omission.
Rutherford was a New Zealander. The Bohr/Rutherford theory of the atom. Bohr was Danish.
I think that any list like this, to a certain point, has be some what subjective. As the UK as whole has produced many great scientists it depends on who you've read about and know something of!
Yes, I would definitely have Maxwell and Faraday on the list, and drop Stephen Hawking whose work is all theoretical and, in future, will prove largely wrong, I think. As we have inventors as well as scientists we should include James Watt, because the steam engine is most important invention enabling the modern world.
Yes, you are right.
You forgot who Turing was. Didn't you mention the movie about him in an earlier video ?
Bell is a complicated case. He left Britain aged 23, but that was for Canada and his home was there when he made his invention. He was moving between his home and Boston, and it was there that he demonstrated it. He did eventually become a US citizen.
Its like building the periodic table. They had to find fits an understand before they could understand so its simply a modern version
Maybe you were thinking of Edison who was a prolific American inventor - The radar magnetron was developed just up the coast from where I live by Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Edison was half Dutch and half British, i think Scottish
Marie Curie was Polish but lived in France.
Marie Curie was Polish but worked in France.
Evolution had been proposed before Darwin. What Darwin discovered was a theory to explain a mechanism by which evolution could take place: evolution by *natural selection* .
Spot on. The fact that animals and plants do change had been observed well before Darwin. But he methodically systematised his vast findings, and then developed the theoretical framework of evolution by natural selection. A true giant.
And Darwin was wrong.
DNA proves intelligent design.
@janhanchenmichelsen2627 Actually that's a misconception.
Plants and animals change within their family.
Dogs have always been dogs and cats have always been cats.
Worms didn't evolve into dogs or anything else.
Natural selection simply keeps the species strong.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418It does nothing of the sort.
There is nothing intelligent about the route taken by the recurrent laryngial nerve in the neck of the giraffe which is a direct result, lime ours, of its evolution from smaller animals. Even without DNA backing up the fact of evolution (as does what we know about bacteria and viruses from actual observation), the study of animal and human physiology provides enough evidence to debunk "intelligent design" as the level of intelligence we would expect from an omniscient creator is not present.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418Their "family"? What is this "family"? Define it.
Are wolves and dogs in the same family? Do you deny that dogs are the descendants of wolves?
Why are rabbits in the northern parts of North America unable to breed with those in Florida?
What is a "cat"? Are lions, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, pumas, mountain lions and lynxes cats? Are they in the same family? Tigers and lions can sometimes interbreed so are they in the same family? Rabbits at the extremes of North America cannot so are they in the same family?
Are donkeys and horses in tge same "family".
Extrapolate back in the eons of time which have elapsed since the earth was formed from a cloud of gas 4.5 billion years ago and you can see how such changes have been going on constantly from a common beginning.
As someone convinced by evolution of all lifeforms from common ancestors (regardless of mechanism), I *can* define "family". All living things are one family.
Darwin's theory finally put a big question mark against the religious belief in God's creation myth! It was a revolution which struck at the heart of all religious beliefs!!!
Thank goodness... Long may it continue.
Schools in the US bible belt only teach creationism and refuse to teach the theory of evolution.🤦
Heard of Galileo?
Even evolution is slowly been disproved.
@@PaulHolland-zo6lw 🤣🤣🤣
John Logie Baird invented the TV
Scottish
@@philipwelsh1862 aye I ken that
I went to an exhibition about the invention and development of TV, decades ago in Berlin, a number of Germans and Americans were credited, but he wasn't mentioned. And my German host hadn't even heard of him.
@@anthonyferris8912 that is potty. What’s wrong with people. They live in a world of lies
@@anthonyferris8912 don’t forget they won the world wars on their own their bloody marvelous the yanks Never lost a a war as well. What would we do without the pratts
There is a great Bell Museum in Beddeck, Canada, Nova Scotia. I’ve been there a couple of times, a bit of a Busman’s holiday, I used to work for British Telecom. It shows that Bell was Scottish and did a lot of work on high speed sea craft after he invented the telephone.
The Higgs boson was the last piece of the Standard Model of particle physics to be found. The Standard Model is our best understanding of the very small, and its predictions include some of the most accurate ever made. Also, the most inaccurate one which is one reason we know it isn’t the whole story. The Higgs boson is a vital part of explaining how electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force emerge from the Standard Model and it was important to discover it so we could measure its properties. Lots of predictions about the origin and ultimate fate of the universe depend on the precise mass of the Higgs boson, which is one of the things the LHC was built to measure.
Speaking of electromagnetism, I wish they’d included James Clerk Maxwell in their list. Not only did he figure out how to unify the laws of electromagnetism and showed that light is an electromagnetic wave, he also was well on the way to developing Einsteinian relativity decades before Einstein at the time of his death. Einstein saw Maxwell as his greatest inspiration.
Marie Curie was Polish, but naturalised French.
What 5 languages did Marie Curie speak?
She also spoke her native Polish. Since Poland was part of the Russian Empire when Marie lived there, she learned Russian in school. In addition to English, Polish, and Russian, she also spoke German and French.
I saw this vid in my feed and i wondered "why haven't i seen any of your vids recommended lately" it turns out i had been unsubscribed, perhaps mention it in one of your videos.
Also the look on your face at Alexander Graham Bell was priceless lol.
It's wild that such a small island has given the world so much.
I'm proud to be English/British with all our faults the modern world is such because of my people.
And maggots in wounds actually are for cleaning away the dead flesh, leaving just the clean healthy tissue behind when removed.
Re the Hiiggs. Quantum theories (before Higgs) could not explain why particles have mass. According to QM, particles should all be massless and travel at lightspeed, just like photons.
Higgs proposed a new field that could provide a mechanism for the observed masses but we needed some proof that the new Higgs field actually existed. All QM fields can vibrate and those vibrations can be observed experimentally as particles (bosons). So the hunt began for the Higg's boson.
Now we have a theory for why particles such as the electron have a mass and the Higg's boson proves it to be correct.
Hi Connor, you should watch "The Theory of Everything" an excellent film
Strictly speaking, Stephen Hawking did not have motor neurone disease but amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ATLS).
Connor , A. G. Bell was born in Scotland, but moved with family to (Canada) America around age 33yrs old.
And unless any of us could say different , that it's his name on patent .
Other than that , I ain't debating , as like you said, you'd been lied to. And for many other reasons
Alexander Graham Bell was as you say born in Scotland but his family moved to Canada, not the US. Bell did move to the US to work later and was given the first US patent for the telephone and this is mainly why US Americans think he is also a US American. He did later get dual nationality with the US.
@@Thurgosh_OG right , so it's documented of ,where A.G.Bell was born and grew up.
Yet to take what's said from a trusted source or such .
That's just down to poor education systems .
Yet also people who don't fact check .
It's not exactly an excuse .
As for Patents ... it doesn't matter ,what country let a patent be put through.
More the person or persons name on said document.
And doing , historical and such factual checks.
This is why I don't debate this.
Because it is so weak kneed on the facts .
I'm saying less on this as ,it can get long and heated . I'd prefer to just live in ignorance.
P.s. I didn't say " U.S. " I said America ,but now corrected to Canada ,which is in North America.
He didn't invent the telephone
Proof
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone
I like his Whisky.
@@williammackenzie6115 pmsl 😂 😂
I'll drink to that ....
Marie Curie was a Polish and a pure genius
Alexander graham Bell was born in Scotland. His family emigrated to Canada when he was a baby where he was raised . As an adult he moved to the USA later becoming a US citizen. All three claim him as one of there own. In The UK he is seen as British except in Scotland where he's only seen as Scots.
In case there remains any doubt , the first song sung by Bell over the telephone was God Save the Queen!
If you don't feel able to ask any question.. you're not going to get an answer
..my favourite word is 'why?'
3 year olds are laser-sighted when it comes to that question
Sir joseph swan, the inventor of the electric light should definately be on this list.
Johann Philipp Reis was the inventor of the telephone (1860) and Konrad Zuse, the inventor of the computer (1941). Both were German!
The 'Higgs Boson' [sometimes called 'the God Particle'] is said to be part of the explanation for gravity and the glue that holds the universe together
Alexander Flemming is from a little Scottish village called Darvel, East Ayrshire l. I lived there for 27 years.
My dog once pee'd on the gate post that leads to Flemming's childhood farm.
I tried to teach my dog about Flemming's contribution to science. But, he wasn't interested in the slightest. At the time, he was only 2 years old.
It wasn't until he was 10 years old and cut his foot. A visit to the vet resulted in him needing antibiotics. It was then that he learned how important Flemming was to his recovery.
As a mark of respect. My dog returned to the same gate post and again pee'd on it. This time, he pee'd with respect rather than disrespect
😁
One thing to note about Flemming, is that discovery of penicillin or its potential effects is the key word here... there are notable others as side from Fleming that have gotten lost in history.
Fleming discovered the effect of penicillin, but he didn't develop it into a useful antibiotic, in fact it remained nothing more than a laboratory curiosity for years.
What made the difference was the work of Howard Florey (a brilliant chemist), Ernst Chain and colleagues at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. It was they that produced, at great effort, the first batch of penicillin. It was they that turned penicillin into a practical pharmaceutical and treated the very first patients.
The Nobel prize for the invention of penicillin as an antibiotic was shared by three people:
Alexander Fleming (who discovered it), Howard Florey (who did the clinical trials and so much work on producing it as an antibiotic) and Ernst Chain who helped Florey.
Also, another unsung hero was Norman Heatley who developed the back-extraction technique for efficiently purifying penicillin so it could be produced in bulk.
Fleming gets all the praise, but without all these other people, well... it would've just be something "interesting". Not taking anything away from him, just making a point that others made brilliant contributions who are by and large forgotten.
Number 1 has to be for the awards handed out on a daily basis.
It's sort of like how Apple is credited for inventing the smartphone. They didn't, a lot of the components that make up the smartphone were made by different companies, in different countries. One could argue that they put it all together and invented the concept of the modern smartphone. Although the concept itself has been around for decades, so they actualised it.
I don't own an iPhone, never have, but they did popularize them. Ironically I find them the least innovative company in the field these days,
I've never heard anyone claim that Apple invented the Smartphone. Is this a US thing?
@@Thurgosh_OG It's an Apple user thing. I've never understood why they're so popular, either in the states or elsewhere.
It's become a bit of a meme now when Apple do something a different company have been doing for some years, and Apple will say "we invented this!" "Look at what Apple has invented!" etc.
Apples key invention with the iPhone was the innovative user interface, making the finger the only pointing device needed, and introducing multi-touch gestures to interactions we now take for granted (pinch to zoom for example, which they had patents on).
It was the vision of having a device that brought everything together with no fixed hardware interface (save the home button and a couple of other side switches - compared to the BlackBerry model which was more the norm at the time) and having everything software defined so the UI could adapt to take advantage of the entire device, which created the concept of the modern “Smartphone” - along with a design philosophy which insisted on a “full desktop” style web experience. Even the best previous “Smartphones” (I had a few) compromised on the web experience as everyone assumed you couldn’t render web pages on a mobile device “normally” and so you had to craft a specific mobile browsing experience. Apple invented the tap to zoom feature on the web pages to take a full web page and allow people to zoom in on relevant content in an ergonomic way that worked.
There were a LOT of innovations Apple brought in with the iPhone that they had patented the hell out of, which is one reason why it took a while for Android to have anything like as nice a user experience, and Google had to invent alternative ways to get a similar user experience without breaking those patents. Eg, the early Android pinch to zoom was awful - it didn’t feel like you were directly manipulating the image, unlike the iPhone. Of course Google eventually worked around those patents but to suggest Apple didn’t invent a lot of new things to make the iPhone what it was would be completely wrong.
The Curies were Polish matey
I would have included James Clerk Maxwell.
Marie Curie was born in Poland and married a Frenchman
Their kids are tought lies at school. Some Americans think only America has beaches. Seriously!
I was working at the Telegraph 20-30 years ago and they made some fucking epic speeling errors. We were all speaking Spainish for a bit. But the best bit of Science was the Large Hardon Collider.
Disappointed that there was no love for Michael Faraday, whose foundational work with electromagnetism most of those mentioned relied upon.
Slender Graham Bell was alleged to have nicked the copyright from someone else…
Fin ding the fundamental partical
If an American is say driving and a song comes on the radio which they like, they think automatically that is an American band. Lmfao. Tells you all you need to know.
Marie Curie born in Warsaw in 1867 😀
I think Marie Curie was originally Polish, but she married a French guy, hence the her French surnames
America: '..because you keep believing me' 🦅
Maxwell ? Dirac ? Thomson ? etc, etc, etc.. And putting Darwin before Newton ? Really?
What about Maxwell, Faraday etc.
What always annoys me slightly is that they totally ignore the true giants - without whom the later scientists wouldn't have been able to make their own discoveries - such as Robert Grosseteste (optics, astronomy, geometry, stated that experiments should be carried out to test a theory by testing its consequences) Roger Bacon ( mechanics, astronomy, geography and optics. Together with Grostesste, Bacon began optics as an area of study at mediaeval universities and their work formed the basis of continuous research into optics that went all the way up to the beginning of the 17th century and the foundation of modern optics by Keppler). There are others but these are the two I know the most about (thanks to the writer Susannah Gregory whose main character is also an amateur scientist and huge admirer of the works done by these two and many others and which lead to my interest in natural philosophy).
I always feel slightly aggrieved when Michael Faraday gets no mention; such is life!
Newton Should be No.1 As well as gravitation, laws on motion, optics, and invention of the Calculus (along with Liebnitz)
Umm.. where is Clerk-Maxwell?
As regards to Fleming. Discovered is the key word here... there are notable others as side from Fleming that have gotten lost in history.
Fleming discovered the effect of penicillin, but he didn't develop it into a useful antibiotic, in fact it remained nothing more than a laboratory curiosity for years.
What made the difference was the work of Howard Florey (a brilliant chemist), Ernst Chain and colleagues at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. It was they that produced, at great effort, the first batch of penicillin. It was they that turned penicillin into a practical pharmaceutical and treated the very first patients.
The Nobel prize for the invention of penicillin as an antibiotic was shared by three people:
Alexander Fleming (who discovered it), Howard Florey (who did the clinical trials and so much work on producing it as an antibiotic) and Ernst Chain who helped Florey.
Also, another unsung hero was Norman Heatley who developed the back-extraction technique for efficiently purifying penicillin so it could be produced in bulk.
Fleming gets all the praise, but without all these other people, well... it would've just been something "interesting".
They left off Professor Haldane. See 'On Being the Right Size.' Definitely more important than Higgs & perhaps a few others on the list given. Used to call in on my parents before & during the War when my parents set up the Taunton Communist Party. Haldane was a dedicated communist. An admirable quirk of his personality is he did all his experiments on himself. Never used animals never used other people.
If you don't know it's magic
Just wait until the average Yank learns about John Logie Baird. That'll blow their minds.
In ancient history, the Greeks had put forward a theory that had similar elements. With Darwin’s ideas.
Watt didn't invent the steam engine Newcomen did and the Greek Hero before him.
Bell didn't invent the telephone:
Proof:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone
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See James Clark Maxwell
No room for the British scientists who invented dna testing
Really? The particle was a theory. The accelerator was created to look for it.
You'll just have to accept that they found something you'll never understand or they'll never prove convincingly...But they will want more money!
Sorry about the time I've had visited in all night I couldn't get rid of them on my eyes was looking at the clock all the time and I had to come up with the excuse to say to them
This list is completely insane. Here is a more sane top 10:
1. Newton 2. Maxwell 3. Faraday 4. Rutherford 5. Darwin 6. Joule 7. JJ Thomson 8. William Thomson 9. Dirac 10. Heaviside
The problem people have with Darwin is that his theory everyone calls the theory of evolution isn't called that, instead, his theory is known as the origin of species by means of natural selection implies that adaptation is caused either by the environment or mutation that benefits the species will provide the species with a better chance of survival.
When my wife's auntie visited from Canada some years back, we took her to Downe Village in Kent (next to Biggin Hill) to Charles Darwins house.....she wouldn't go in to view the house because being a died in the wool Roman Candle, she violently disagreed with his work.....Silly old Bat that she was!
At least she didn't go off and burn the house down.
I have no idea why Stephen Hawking is in that list. Tells me the list is more Buzzfeed listicle than serious.
At the end of the
Try and put yourself before evolution was known
Surely that'll be easy / simple for an American... (Not Connor here specifically, as he's always eager to learn) ...but too many Americans, or rather, _Citizens of the USA_ don't understand - or believe - in evolution, or they _do_ 'believe' that humans lived alongside the 'terrible lizards' - aka dinosaurs etc... (sigh...🤔🥺)
Madame Curie was born in Russian occupied Poland and at 24, moved to France with her sister, “to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work.”
Born in Poland, and moved to France (at the age of 24) to study in Paris.
You can have Alexander Graham Bell, who had emigrated by the time he came up with his wretched toy. Where is John Logie Baird, the inventor of the TV, which Americans claim was down to someone else entirely. Which is a joke if you kook at the picture quality of early Amrrican tv - if you weren't told you were looking at moving images of people, you'd never have guessed. Well, I don't care anyway, because none of them, Baird, Bell, Yankee Doodle Doo and Doodle Dee jr. would be anywhere with their lickle INVENTIONS if it were not for the greatest SCIENTIST whose omission from this list is an egregious indictment of the teenagers who came up with it. Presumably they'd not got to him yet in their Combined Science GCSE (it's the subject they make you do if they're unsble to detect any trace of scientific ability by the time you turn 14). I give you one of the greats of Physics, the man who united electricity and magnetism into a single force, James Clark Maxwell. A giant, a beast, a big hairy Scotsman. When Einstein visited Cambridge in the 1920s, some arse licker said 'wooh, loving your stuff, Bertie, what! It's neat old biy, but hey, admit it - you must have stood on the shoulders of ma boy, ma homie, Sir Isaac Newton', and Einstein paused and gave his host a hot piercing stare before replying 'nein, ich stand auf Maxwells Schultern, ihr Speichellecker', which caused a bit of a fracas when they got it translated. Wow! They can be very direct, the Bosch. In which spirit, I'll say it again. No Maxwell? He's the father of electromagnetism, and they've got no freakin idea what they're talking about, this lot. Who the hell is Miss Mojo anyway, and who was it that lost her? It must be somebody, and they need to come and claim her, because now she's lost her marbles! Traumatized by her own name, I expect.
Don’t you Americans ever listen to watch you are watching.
Alexander Graham Bell migrated to Canada at the age of 23 in 1870 (where he was a 'British Subject') and moved to U.S.A. and took up American citizenship in 1882 .
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy for how the telephone may have actually been realized.
Lol Marie Curie was French.
I think.
Not American.
Look up lists of inventors by uk countries-Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England....there's a lot for each individual country.
I think to get a theory of evolution, you need more than the great variety of life, you need to know that in the past it was different, that animals had changed their form. The study of fossils had to come first, or you wouldn't even know you needed an explanation .
Darwin was not the first to come up with the basic theory of evolution. He was the first to determine its fundamental mechanisms (not unlike the investigation and ongoing research of particle physics). His theory of evolution incorporated 'natural selection', critically the missing key to explaining the evolutionary process.
Hello it's not about scientists I'm going to tell you about a radio station called the Galloway breakfast show that comes on in Scotland and the man Scotch and the Carly's name Hector Brocklebank and what he does a phone's people look on their phones he wakes them and say she's got a wagon full of fish for them to deliver to them get to open your computer you level up make you laugh is falling up the people and tell him he's got Waggon Road to fish to deliver to
I can't quite spell it right but what is doing is falling up the people saying I've got a wagon Road a fish to deliver to you you'll get open your computer it makes you laugh