Greatest 'scientists' who ever lived?

[jinx]

Ok i put 'scientists' in brackets because a baby or a plumber uses the scientific method but more specifically im referring to contributions to mankind. I assume a physicist would say either Einstein or Newton. One VERY overlooked person is Nikola Tesla. So he was alive around the same time as Einstein though isnt mentioned nearly as much. I mean come on AC electricity into essentially everyones house on earth, what could be more practical than that? And what did Einstein contribute? Special/general relativity Yay who cares (asking for a flaming). So have your say, who and for what reason do you think was the greatest contributor to mankind in terms of increasing mankinds knowledge of the universe/aiding mankind with an invention?

[Cerveny]

I vote for integrating personality: J. C. Maxwell
Einstein's crazy model of reality - space-time - and even crazier metrics slowed the physics by at least half a century: (

[jinx]

Oh yeh Maxwell was a giant

Einstein's crazy model of reality - space-time - and even crazier metrics slowed the physics by at least half a century: (

Hmm because it is garbage or because other people could not make sense of it? (or some combination of both lol)

[tillingborn]

Ok i put 'scientists' in brackets because a baby or a plumber uses the scientific method...

What do you think this scientific method is?

[jinx]

When a baby crawls for the first time he starts with a hypothesis ( i will crawl) then proceeds to observation/experimentation (crawls), readjusts his theory based on repeated observations and experimentation, falls over then starts all over again. Everyone on earth is a 'scientist'.

[tillingborn]

When a baby crawls for the first time he starts with a hypothesis ( i will crawl) then proceeds to observation/experimentation (crawls), readjusts his theory based on repeated observations and experimentation, falls over then starts all over again. Everyone on earth is a 'scientist'.

In that case I nominate Thales of Miletus. He was the first person to advocate applying the scientific method you describe to our understanding of the world.

[jinx]

Heh seems more significant than Aristotle based on wiki interesting character.

[Arising_uk]

When a baby crawls for the first time he starts with a hypothesis ( i will crawl) then proceeds to observation/experimentation (crawls), readjusts his theory based on repeated observations and experimentation, falls over then starts all over again. Everyone on earth is a 'scientist'.

She doesn't even have an 'I' at this stage. She just crawls. Although she actually rolls first.