Who's your favourite scientist?

[siddharthjoshi91]

Michael Faraday

[zachu95]

What no Galileo???!?!? D:

[slowmopoke]

Dirac.

[Mallaclllypse]

Dick Feynman FTW!

[ThePurpleIsland]

Nicolaus Copernicus. First of all, his first name sounds a lot like mine and he was the one who started the scientific revolution with his book that was published at the end of his life. He and Galileo are, in my opinion, the fathers of modern astronomy. I've always had a facination with both Copernicus and Galileo and have always wanted to observe mars through a home-made telescope and will hopefully be able to do that one day.

[farshad94abedi]

just fyi, there is only one perspective which allows Newton as being the creator of science, and that is the english one, othewise ud know that ancient people, ie myans, sumerians, and other caulturs around the world had a pritty good sense of the topic

[stso18]

Cave Johnson! OK,not really.

Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard is what i grew opp whit and heard a lot of him on the news.

[douro20]

Lise Meitner, a beautiful and brilliant young woman who had a wonderful insight into the interaction of atoms and elementary particles. She discovered nuclear fission, and with Otto Hahn, discovered nuclear fusion, but was never widely acknowledged for her work. She had the ground work for Auger spectroscopy one year before Pierre Auger himself did. There is a famous school of science in Berlin and a new quantum physics computational facility named after her, and recently an element.

[RagingBubuli]

Nikola Tesla!

[nbachmann]

I cried when I watched Feynman's final interview.

He did so much with life that it is unthinkably sad that his life had to come to an end.

[lexagon]

Feynman. Not only was the man a genius and a 'magician' (to quote Bethe), he also cracked almost all the safes in Los Alamos for shits and giggles, was an accomplished bongo drummer (even playing in the samba carneval in Rio), a commercially successful nude sketch artist, and his regular office at Caltech was at a local strip joint in which he scribbled highly advanced physics on coasters. When the community tried to close down the strip club, Feynman was the only patron to publicly defend it.

[EducationLover]

Marie Curie and Henri Bercquel and William Conrad Rontgen.

[EducationLover]

Albert Einstien , Feynman, Nikola Tesla, Schrodinger , Newton, Kepler, Stephan HAwking , Max Planck, Paul Dirac, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr , Wolfgang Paul , Antonie Lavoisire, Michael Faraday, Michio Kaku, Al- Kndi, Ibn Al Haytham, Louis Pasture, Thomas Edison, and Albert Szent-Gyrgoyi... are my fav scientists.

[kiemul136]

Feynman ftw!

[123dawut]

Joule

[astat1]

Lawrence Krauss, of course.

[FlashAstronomy]

Feynman, because his way of thinking is exactly like mine and many people by just listening to him a little would think he's crazy (as happens often with me). Not trying to say me = Feynman, but besides the knowldege barrier (which will not be one anymore someday), I find barely any differences between he and I.

Gotta say I greatly respect Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking aswell, because they all also have the Passion for science, a passion which i possess aswell and they have helped fuel.

[EgoSumVerum]

@FlashAstronomy

I know the feeling. Reading his lectures, I feel like he is on my wavelength, he inspired me to go into physics. If I could be one hundredth of the physicist he was, I would consider myself a success.

[Rbedwards94]

Bill Nye the science guy. Hands down.

(Not really, I'm much more a fan of Hawking... Such an amazing writer and mind)

[danrbiv]

Professor Hubert farnsworth ;)

Or Michio kaku

[BedroomBassist]

My favourite is Carl Sagan because of the way he put himself across in making a point. Also his philosophical approach was awesome. :}

[lukegranger89]

Charles Darwin. There may be scientists that were smarter or technically more brilliant but his simple and elegant theory allows us to go some way to answering the 'big' questions. His theory can at least shed some meaning on life whereas the work of most scientists is quite abstract and usually not conducive to philosophical interpretation.

[damianpaz]

I agree with the girl at 3:00 . It wouldn't be fair to pick one. They all did a great job and they influenced each other to make thought evolve. I understand tough why many picked Feynman. Probably the same reason why I like Asimov and why I like Sixty Symbols.

[1KevinsFamousChili1]

Ernest Rutherford :D

[1KevinsFamousChili1]

YAAAA RUSH MOVING PICTURES!!! awesome album!!! 0:46

[Demoman42]

Nikola Tesla ! ;]

[Jedi3231]

Feynman and Louie Pasture.

[NikkiDaebak]

My favourite scientist is definitely Nikola Tesla.

[JoeyMars1]

I have three.... Newton, Maxwell and Einstein..and Plank too whynot! But they're all good.

[rodillaconmorete]

AMY MAINZER IS MY FVORITE, SHE'S PRETTY AND MICHIO KAKU

[leerman22]

Nikola Tesla is my favorite, partly because Edison was an asshole...

[LeconsdAnalyse]

Albert Einstein. He created an entirely new physical theory, supported by countless experimental evidence.

[FernandoPST]

0:48 man, 'moving pictures' is my favorite too!

[eStalker42]

Henri Poincaré anyone?

[mewrox99]

Nikola Tesla.

He is grossly unappreciated by the general public and is the founder of modern electrical distribution. This genius was way ahead of his time

[jailbird111]

Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī. just look at his work and wide range of field he worked in. and he calculated the radius of earth more then thousand year before. check wiki if u want more info. don't be racist science has no boundaries of region or religion.

[wrightlawnv]

Yep, I agree. Feynman was one o my favorite scientists too. His autobiography was fascinating. No one mentioned Asimov, whose wit and knowledge also inspired many.

[banana1337kivi]

Feynman and Sagan.

[axelasdf]

Feynman FTW.

[flybyproxy]

I'm going to have to say that I am completely displeased no one picked Tesla. It seems all the bastards brought up Feynman who merely got media attention. He hasn't fought any large corporations (like Tesla vs. Edison). Personally, my idol is Tesla (and possibly Socrates). Why? Simply because they were more than willing to give their life for education / betterment of people. Even against enormous power, they did not back down because they knew they were right.

[LacedShit]

Tesla!!! come on surprised no one picked him.

[mewrox99]

@LacedShit

+1

[EagleScoutsRock]

bill nye 

[opnasd]

Dr. Oetker did a great job too

[isrealjason]

can anyone say Arcameadies? or spell it

[LouBo87]

I also was abit shocked to see Tesla didn't have a mention. If only he'd not been taken advantage of back in the day -- such a shame =(

[zoina21]

Feynman

[lambogeek]

Dr Moriarty himself!

[Bjo15]

nicola teslaaaa HE MADE EVERYTHING REALY !!!

[webmastertool]

@Bjo15 Ahh Tesla, inventor of the 21st century. Nice choice.

[MrEurgbp]

richard Fineman is awesome! funny bloke

[GCUACGGAG]

Awww! I forgot to add Kepler, Copernicus and all the scientist in the scientific revolution. :)

[webmastertool]

I don't really have any favorite scientist. Anyone that dedicated their life to finding the truth is my favorite scientist.

[SalDali]

Carl Sagan. The most handsome scientist.

[LycandersAim]

Nikola Tesla

[xcheesyxbaconx]

Carl Sagan!

[physicsbugga]

I vote for John Bardeen!!!

[TheNelsonGonzalez]

Emmett Brown. ;)

[CrazyPerson03832]

Max Planck :)

[Skindoggiedog]

Kirk Cameron.

[mbilibana]

Mawethu Bilibana

[MizNoFun]

I haven't knew that Feynman is that famous .... damn now I gotta change my fav scientist

[chantellesasha]

feynman fineman:)

[dunderpl]

"Scientists take all those things that can be analyzed by observation, and thus the things called science are found out. But there are some things left out, for which the method does not work. This does not mean that those things are unimportant. They are, in fact, in many ways the most important. In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a "should" involved, and this cannot be worked out from "if I do this, what will happen?" alone." - Feynman

[mikepep33]

Carl Sagan. He was an amazing person, and he was always calm. He was never angry or arrogant like many other scientists.

[mfdogboy]

@mikepep33 I WONDER WHY?

[javatar77]

Bill Nye

[dorothea81]

Feynmann, I think

[owtenur]

I would say Tesla, his ideas are so important for us now and for the foreseeable future. More so than any other scientist that comes to mind, without his work on AC how much further back would we be?

[qw2589]

Feynman was the kind of scientist that truly understood and enjoyed life aside from science

[JollSSteR]

Every scientist HAS TO READ: The moral landscape By: Sam Harris.

Fcking awesome book, PLS go read it, every scientist has to!

[MichaelKingsfordGray]

Feynman beat(s) them hands down...

[qw2589]

I heard Feynman used to solve and think in a strip club

[MrOldprof]

@qw2589 Read the book "Genius" by James Gleick to find out what Feynman did in his strip club, and his wife's response.

See page 405 for this: " ...when a friend put him on the participant list for a quantum field theory conference ... he (Feynman) replied in Groucho Marx fashion: What the hell is Feynman invited for? He is not up to the other guys and is doing nothing as far as I know. If you clean up the invitation list, to just the hard-core workers, I might begin to think about attending.

[ianmorgan70]

@qw2589, that's a great excuse, I'll have to use it some time.

[xRejectedJessx]

Rutherford.

[AguzSuiCaedere]

Oh, Carl Sagan, such a charming man.

[kgypt]

Paul Dirac

[bujin1977]

For me, it's people who can communicate science to the general public in a way that shows how interesting science is (and that it isn't just boring people with messy hair in white lab coats writing complicated equations on a blackboard).

Obviously Feynman and Sagan are two of those, but of people around today, I would have to say Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Cox for physics, and Richard Dawkins in biology.

[zeppocore]

Arthur C. Clarke

[ragebassmasta]

aww way to cop out

[azael23]

Leonard Euler and Carl Gauss

[TheToxicRadio]

Neil deGrasse Tyson! he's a scientist right? lol

[jakevikoren]

FEYNMAN FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SuperFireM]

Niels Bohr and Schrodinger:Schrodinger for "Schrodinger's Cat" and Niels for his contributions on atomic rescurch.

[Xxpetrandr007xX]

Albert Enstein, because i like his theory about light speed=time travel and well.. he just seem to represent the whole world of physics :) (according to me!)

[ifsey]

Gordon Freeman, anyone?

[Xxpetrandr007xX]

@ifsey HAHA YEAH! XD

[hotch1776]

@ifsey Freeman = Feynman

[soberek]

@ifsey C'mon, the cake is a lie.

[johnjaksic61]

How does one really pick over so many excellent and deserving minds? It's like saying who is the best--each has contributed a lasting impression to the betterment of the sciences.

[gregthebunny553]

Awesome work in 2010 guys I truly enjoy catching your inspiring videos every week. Live well and God Bless You All in 2011.

[Bjo15]

Nicola Tesla

[wowggscrub]

i like lenard suskind.

[pupsgesichtmitsosse]

interesting choice for newton's picture

[jlspma]

Martyn Poliakof, definitely. Thumb me....I spelled it correctly=)

[mcarp555]

For currently living scientists, I'd have to say Ed Witten, for his work on M-Theory. He may be remembered one day like Feynman is today.

[HubertCumberdale22]

Favorite Scientist? ...Professor Laurence Eaves!

What, you don't know who he is?! ^^

[LogInfinity]

@HubertCumberdale22

Its u isnt it ... I like it :)

[noobenstein]

Me!

I'm my favourite scientist.

[wdm2112]

RUSH

Good choice for favorite album there. Although I think mine is A Farewell to Kings.

[pangtengchen]

Stephen Hawking



[bbphnix]

seems faynman has the most admirers

[mrblisterfist]

Nikola Tesla!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Richy15251]

WRONG the correct answer is Carl Sagan. This is an objective truth

[dogbishop]

Tyco Brahe... the bastard had a gold nose. How ghetto is that?

[LFZ15]

Feynman is so many people's favorite scientist... nobody else had quite the high-profile giddy enthusiasm he had about not just science but everything he did, nor did anybody else have the insight and intellectual caliber that he did. I think it's a perfect cocktail as far as someone to look up to in the scientific world.

[LordNapalm]

Feynman and Sagan FTW

[yusukeshinyama]

Richard Feynman is the personification of human curiosity (in a good way).

I'm really grateful that he actually lived our age. Unlike older scientists, we can now share not only his papers or writings, but also videos and recordings. There're tons of stories and anecdotes about him. And from those stories, I can see a very colorful and lively human being. He is someone who I aspire to be.

[MrRobotoToo]

Feynman FTW!

[iakodu]

Newton

[Furiouslyfappin]

Fuck yeah Moving Pictures!

[QuasistellarQuark]

Richard P Feynman

The Feynman Lectures are ingenious; actually all of his writing are quite entertaining, his perspectives on science and his ability to communicate concepts in novel ways has always fascinated me.

Even a book of his collected letters, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, was a great read. Thanks for the video!

[Deathlock999]

tesla!!!

[Malithion2001]

Carl Sagan!!!!!!!

[cameronanimeangel]

Mine would have to be James Hutton due to he is the father of Geology.

[culwin]

L Ron Hubbard

[ccronn]

Tesla, hands down.

[Kakarot21591]

Isaac Yudovich Asimov!

[Zee96969696]

Stephen Hawking, I have no idea why

[TaNgLeD2121]

for character,.....feymen and sagan........ for the biggest step ... Albert Einstein

[LNOL]

Newton.

[MrSeanMDickinson]

da vinci

[soulcatch]

Right now, my two favorite scientist are the women in this video. so intelligent and beautiful <3

[mrhulot101]

I grew up thinking the movie Dr Strangelove was the best movie ever made. Peter sellers did an amazing eccentric german accent for his mad scientist Dr Strangelove. Then one day I heard Dr edward teller on the radio, I had to sit down. Dr tellers accent is identical to Dr Strangelove. To this day i have to say Edward Teller is my favorite scientist, although Newton is so amazing.

[GaolisVideoLog]

I like Chomsky, but he's a linguist. Most people who come to my mind are humanists & engineers, so, I don't know if they count. If yes, I'd go with Konrad Zuse (1st computer) or Paul Nipkow (1st TV).

[tankmdg]

Steven Hawking 

[coolliger]

@DataJackOne

Sam Harris does not belong with those names...

[coolliger]

PLANCK?!

[Vennificus]

Feynman's my favourite for a different reason. We have the same personality type, and it becomes obvious the more I read his stuff (I got "surely you're joking Mr. Feynman for christmas"). The man wasn't just awesome and entertaining, he was honest. He spoke about his defeats, where he was wrong, what he made mistakes on with the same endearment as his achievements.

[sausage4mash]

Feynman s my Fav . Love the fact he scored slightly above average on an IQ test but in fact had a brain the size of a small planet ,lol, so much for social *Cough*science .

[Vennificus]

@sausage4mash yeahhhhhhh that's because IQ isn't very good at measuring actual intelligence, Just a combination of logical and linguistic. If you fail at one it drags down your score.

[presbarkeep]

My favorite scientist is The Professor from Gilligan's Island.

[GuppyPal]

I really like Thomas Huxley. I'm a biologist though.

Newton and Einstein are probably the two of the most brilliant scientists ever to live and who I have a very large amount of admiration and wonder for. Feynman just seemed like a great human being all around. Carl Sagan was great as well but didn't have quite the charism of Feynman.

One of my physiology professors is also one of my favorites as well. He's possibly lived the most interesting life of anyone I've known.

[gamerchick1o1]

Professor Farnsworth.

[snipesnrifles]

Marytn Poliakoff

[coolliger]

@snipesnrifles

For sure, he is awesome!

[DarkRaimundo]

In my opinion, Albert Einstein was the greatest scientist in history.

[jerzmacow]

lol feynman for me too

[yellowmetalcyborg]

Michael Faraday.

Out of all the great scientists, he's my favorite.

[STEPHENWRAYSFORD33]

@yellowmetalcyborg he certainly was.

[vaarsuviusprime]

Even scientists prefer the scientists who were good with people to the scientists who made the biggest strides.

[JesusEclipse]

@DataJackOne you seem to be a big fan of the "atheist" scientists lol

[bereal666]

Guglielmo Marconi, the first one who sends wireles signals over the atlantic ocean. Noble price of Physics, He did all basics for our modern society....

[UncleSteven69]

Stephen Hawking?

[TheRimDoctor]

Niels Bohr.

[Bluebuthappy182]

I remember that Horizon on Feynman it was a great show, well worth looking up if you havent' see it, i think it's on youtube. For me my favourite scientist is Eratosthenes the greek mathematician 276 to 195 bc. He invented geography, he proved the earth was round, invented the system of latitude and longitude and worked out the circumference of the earth using the shadow of a stick in the ground. When you consider the tools he had and what he achieved, he's an amazing man

[PClerkin2010]

Jesus obviously lmao

[LegallyMoi]

John Dalton

[skinnyjohnsen]

I too am surprised Tesla wasn't mentioned, but when Feynman talks, science seems so easy, so interesting and you just want to learn. He is my guy too ;-)

[mantas1111000]

My favourite scientist is Dr. Poliakoff, that big haired guy from the chemistry videos.

[theep16]

I personally like michael Faraday, a man with out formal education went on to use experimentation to figure out great things just out of love for understanding the world.

[kalikatik1]

Tesla is the most underrated scientist!Tesla Newton ftw

[madman123456]

Dr. Insano.

[HardstyleMatt]

Newton and Einstein. They both brought together Maths and Science and took everything to a new level.

[shams582]

Nikola Tesla

[ig33ve]

Sheldon Cooper.

[KemaTheAtheist]

There's so many scientists to choose from. As a biologist, I'd have to say Darwin because theory is the basis for all biology as we know it. Past that, all the greats that have been mentioned from Feynman, Newton, Tyson, Edison, Sagan, Watson, Crick... I have far too many scientific heroes to pick just one.

[coil311]

Carl Sagan, David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Charles Darwin.

[mavris5]

Tesla ftw....

[tmcthree]

I study Law and I wish we could do a series like this on legal concepts and issues, but you just couldn't. Law is, for the most part, only really interesting in it failures which are frustrating rather than entertaining. Science on the other hand is a bit like magic. Except, when you explain how the trick is done it just makes it more magical.

[comface]

I like Neil deGrasse Tyson's answer to this question: -

"Newton invented calculus on a whim, stemming from a wager. Most of us struggle for years just to learn it, he invented it!

He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics......... Then he TURNED TWENTY-SIX."

[1DARBY1]

Doc Brown (back to the future)...........

[hussanali]

Feynman and Pual Dirac.

[KzrrainzYes]

Tesla and Newton.

[Steve7508]

I'd have to go with Feynman too.

[1RadicalOne]

Sagan. Sagan. Sagan Sagan Sagan Sagan Sagan!

[GCUACGGAG]

Einstein, Tesla, Newton, Dirac, Schrodinger, Hubble and Turing are my most favorite scientists.

[ericofcrows]

Doc Brown all the way!

[homousios]

Newton. He started the ball rolling