Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really ‘see’ whether molecules as complicated as the sterols or strychnine were just as experiment suggested? ~ Dorothy Hodgkin - 1910 to 1984
It is a platitude that pure mathematics can have unexpected consequences and affect even daily life. ~ J.E. Littlewood 1885 – 1977 - Mathematician
Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011) USA – C (programming language).
Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (1201–1274) Persia/Iran – observatory Tusi-couple.
Ali Kashmiri ibn Luqman (fl.1589–1590) Mughal India – seamless globe and celestial globe.
Robert Feulgen (1884–1955) Germany – Feulgen stain (histology).
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) Netherlands – pendulum clock.
William Lee (1563–1614) UK – Stocking frame knitting machine.
Tracy Hall (1919–2008) USA – synthetic diamond.
Charles Goodyear (1800–1860) USA – vulcanization of rubber.
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725–1804) France – first steam-powered road vehicle.
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungary – hydrogen bomb.
Goldsworthy Gurney (1793–1875) England - Gurney Stove.
Luigi Palmieri (1807–1896) Italy – seismometer.
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896–1964) Russia – Maksutov telescope.
David Schwarz (1852–1897) Croatia – rigid ship later called Zeppelin.
Edwin H. Land (1909–1991) USA – Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera.
Igor Spassky (born 1926) Russia – Sea Launch platform.
Vladimir Syromyatnikov (1933–2006) Russia – Androgynous Peripheral Attach System and other spacecraft docking mechanisms.
Edwin Southern (born 1938) USA – Southern blot (molecular biology).
Semen Korsakov (1787–1853) Russia – punched card for information storage.
John Howard Kyan (1774–1850) Ireland – The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation.
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I believe that new mathematical schemata new systems of axioms certainly new systems of mathematical structures will be suggested by the study of the living world. ~ Stan Ulam 1909 – 1984 - Mathematician
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it. - Justus von Liebig 1803 to 1873 Chemist
I have eaten 2/3 of 1/3 of my food ration. 7 remains. How much food did I start with? ~ Cuneiform Babylonian mathematics exercise 1900 – 1600 BC
Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics! ~ Wolfgang Pauli 1900 – 1958
Chemistry unlike other sciences sprang originally from delusions and superstitions and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology. ~ Thomas Thomson - 1773 to 1852
Biology is the study of the complex things in the Universe. Physics is the study of the simple ones. ~ Richard Dawkins 1941 – present - Evolutionary Biologist
By ‘life ’ we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay. - Aristotle 384 BC to 322 BC Scientist Philosopher
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