-
Asked by ragustinh to Alexandra, Dean, Jess, Luisa, Sian on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: About. This question was also asked by emilyd.
Question: who do you think is the smartest scientist that ever existed???
-
Sian Foch-Gatrell answered on 21 Jun 2010:
I think there are a lot of scientists that have thought well beyond the current discoveries and technologies of their time! I think there have been some really amazing theoretical scientists from history that have been proved correct anywhere up to 200 years after their deaths! For me, I think Charles Darwin fits the bill, he had an astonishing mind
-
-
Dean Whittaker answered on 22 Jun 2010:
Smartest scientist was einstein. He managed to think of things completely differently with his imagination. A lot of stuff came to him in dreams etc.. The leaps he took forward were extraudinary when you think about it – saying that time and space are linked, that time can slow down when you move quickly. But einstein actually only said a couple of things – one that I know is that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, which is constant however fast you’re moving relative to it.
From that one fact, he worked out we can slow down and speed up time, that objects are different sizes if you’re moving and that gravity must work differently to how we used to think. It’s extraudinary.
-
Luisa Ostertag answered on 22 Jun 2010:
Wow, tough one. Probably one of the ones who are doing quantum physiscs at the moment and trying to prove and simulte the big bang?!
-
Jessica Housden answered on 22 Jun 2010:
smartest scientist – now that’s hard because it’s hard to define smart! Maybe Bose – who had a considerable input to Einstein’s work was as smart as Einstein for example. All I know is that there are a lot of very smart scientists, and then also a lot of people like myself who aren’t geniuses but lucky enough to work in science.
Comments