My apologies if anyone has seen this twice; it never came back to me and
I expect it got lost.
Darwin would be a good candidate. He revolutionized biology, and
philosophy got changed a great deal as a result. I'm a little surprised
his name hasn't come up yet, actually.
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Maurice Barnhill, mvb@udel.edu http://www.physics.udel.edu/~barnhill/
Physics Dept., University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716