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Sir Isaac Newton 1642.12.25 - 1726.03.20 English
Mathematics, Founder of Physics
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646.06.21 - 1716.11.14 German
philosophical Entropy, Fractals, Conservation of Energy;
and Computer Computation. Founder of Engineering.
Daniel Bernoulli 1700.02.08 - 1782.03.17 Swiss
Kinetic theory of Gases
Leonhard Euler 1707.04.15 - 1783 Swiss
Mathematics, Optics
Roger Joseph Boscovich 1711.05.18 - 1787.02.13 Croatian
Atomic theory
Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736.01.25 - 1813.04.10 Italian, French
Mathematics, Abstract Roots
C.A.Coulomb 1736.06.14 - 1806.10.23 French
Electrostatic Force
Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749.03.23 - 1827.03.05 French
Mathematics, Astronomy
Joseph Fourier 1768.03.21 - 1830.05.16 French
Mathematics, Heat Propagation, Fourier Analysis
Jean-Baptiste Biot 1774.04.21 - 1862.02.03 French
Magnetic field
Amedeo Avogadro 1776.08.09 - 1856.07.09 Italian
Avogadro Constant
Hans Christian Orsted 1777.08.14 - 1851.03.09 Danish
Electromagnetism
Michael Faraday 1791.09.22 - 1867.08.25 British
Electromagnetism
William Rowan Hamilton 1805.08.04 - 1865.09.02 Irish
Hamiltonian Manifold
George Boole 1815.11.02 - 1864.12.08 British
Computer Logic
Rudolf Clausius 1822.01.02 - 1888.06.24 German
Entropy
James Clerk Maxwell 1831.06.13 - 1879.11.05 Scottish
Electromagnetic Field, Maxwell's Equations
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann 1844.02.20 - 1906.09.05 Austrian
Thermodynamics, Entropy
Albert A. Michelson 1852.12.19 - 1931.05.09 Jewish
Definition of the Meter Length
Hendrik A. Lorentz 1853.07.18 - 1928.02.04 Dutch
Time dilation
Nikola Tesla 1856.07.10 - 1943.01.05 Austrian
Greatist Engineer, Inventor of radio, Inventor ACpower, Inventor Remote Control
Sir Joseph John Thomson 1856.12.18 - 1940.08.30 Scottish
discovery of the Electron
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 1857.02.22 - 1894.01.01 Jewish
Electromagnetic waves
Max Planck 1858.04.23 - 1947.10.04 German,Jewish
Planck's constant
David Hilbert 1862.01.23 - 1943.02.14 Russian
Mathematics, Class field theory, infinite-dimensional space
Pieter Zeeman 1865.05.25 - 1943.10.09 Dutch
Magnetic line splitting
Marie S. Curie 1867.11.07 - 1934.07.04 Polish
Radioactivity
Robert Andrews Millikan 1868.03.22 - 1953.12.19 American
Electron Charge, Planck's Constant, Entropy
Lise Meitner 1878.11.07 - 1968.10.27 Jewish
mass/energy, discoverer of Nuclear Fission
Albert Einstein 1879.03.14 - 1955.04.18 Jewish
Relativity, SpaceTime
Amalie Emmy Noether 1882.03.23 - 1935.04.14 Jewish
Mathematics
Niels David Bohr 1885.10.07 - 1962.11.18 Jewish
Atom, Complementarity, Uncertainty Principle, Quantum Mechanics
Erwin Schrodinger 1887.08.12 - 1961.01.04 Austrian
Quantum Mechanics, Mathematics, Entanglement
Alexander Friedmann 1888.06.29 - 1925.09.16 Jewish
Cosmology, SpaceCurvatures
Sir James Chadwick 1891.10.20 - 1974.07.24 English
Neutron
Satyendra Nath Bose 1894.01.01 - 1974.02.04 Indian
Boson
Georges Joseph Lemaitre 1894.07.17 - 1966.06.20 Belgium
Cosmology, Computers
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli 1900.04.25 - 1958.12.15 Jewish
Exclusion Principle, Spin, Neutrino, parapsychology
Enrico Fermi 1901.09.29 - 1954.11.28 Italian
nuclear reactions, induced radioactivity, Fermion
Werner Heisenberg 1901.12.01 - 1976.02.01 German
matrix mechanics, Co-discover uncertainty principle
Paul Adrien Dirac 1902.08.08 - 1984.10.20 British
Quantum Electrodynamics, Fermions, Entanglement
George Gamow 1904.03.04 - 1968.08.19 Russian
Alpha decay, Star formation, Cosmic writer
Edward Teller 1908.01.15 - 2003.09.09 Jewish
Hydrogen Bomb
Richard P. Feynman 1918.05.11 - 1988.02.15 Jewish
Quantum Electrodynamics, teaching Diagrams
Benoit B. Mandelbrot 1924.11.20 - 2010.10.14 Jewish
Dimensions less than 2, Fractal Geometry
Murray Gell-Mann 1929.09.15 - Jewish
Quarks, sum rules, string theory
John W. Moffat 1932 - Denmark
Gravity, Speed-of-Light
"Where they have burned books, they will in the end burn people. "
- 1821 poet, prophet: Harry Heine
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Sadly, the list of the greats is missing so many of the great-unknowns which were killed by the German people.
Sadly - and in general - the list is missing so many people that were killed or subdued in the name of Religion.
Sadly, the list is shortened by persecution, racism, and intolerance to differences.
And finally, the sadist of all: we can not go back and make the list longer.
Historically, there is a raging invisible force, exceedingly clever and ruthless, that relentlessly pursues the "great ones" -
through out all years.
This force lives in man; the environment being exceedingly favorable and agreeable.
No known scientific method exists that can separate the force out from man.
Tragically, The hideous affliction of the few, renders all men
ugly as a species.
C.A.Pennock
