Re: [Phys-l] Notes and national character?

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

According to: 

http://education.jlab.org/qa/historyus_01.html


He was more a booster than a scientist regretting state craft took time 
away from this.  He did name some fossils he discovered and his 
techniques for their collection (his development) are still used today.

bc, who first heard of Jefferson as Palaeontologist from Ray Alf in ca. 
1953.

http://www.webb.org/alf/index.html

Rauber, Joel wrote:

> I know, Monticello comes to mind -- ??
>
> Of course, the same comments regarding him apply as well the about Ben
> Franklin
>
> Were his scientific works as well respected in Europe as Ben's?
>
> ________________________ 
> Joel Rauber 
> Department of Physics - SDSU 
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> | Of Bernard Cleyet
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> | Right; do you know on which bill is the other scientist?  
> | (that I know)
> | [Hint: he founded a University, and was a member of the 
> | American Philosophical Society along w/, curiously, Tom Paine 
> | and John Marshall!]
> | 
> | bc, right;  not because they were scientists.
> | 
> | Rauber, Joel wrote:
> | 
> | >One can of course argue this, but the link shows a $100 note 
> | with Ben 
> | >Franklin.  Technically this is an example of a scientist on 
> | US currency.
> | >Of course, I doubt that he appears on the note because he was a 
> | >scientist; but no doubt because of his work in government and public 
> | >service, like every other personage on US currency and coins 
> | (are there 
> | >any counter examples?  Off the top of my head I don't think 
> | of any, but 
> | >. . .)
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