Re: Re[2]: Scientist of the Millennium?

["Miguel A. Santos" <msantos@etse.urv.es>]

> Who are the obvious ones, in your opinion?
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> Da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.
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> (others later took credit for his discovery - he died in 1995).  From him
> it was a hop, skip and a jump from ENIAC, IBM, Cray, DEC, and Altair to 
> all the PCs (and ironically to Y2K).
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> Rick
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> Richard G. Strickert, Ph.D.          | "In mathematics you don't understand
Then also, Faraday (wasn't he the first who thought on an
interaction mediated via a field?), Maxwell (So that we have
the other 'pair' in the history of physics), and also
obviusly then the inventor of the transistor: Baarden, Cooper and...
(I always forget it) Shefield?

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