Who is arguably the most influential scientist, /his/? Hard

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>>3016802
Issac Newton

Roger Bacon

Johannes Kepler, the last astrologist and the first astronomer.

In terms of just how much thought was changed by his discoveries I'm going to say Darwin. He not only invented modern Biology but profoundly affected everything from Theology to Philosophy.

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It has to be /my guy/ or my /other guy/ Mendel

Antoine de Lavoisier.

>>3016958
Why Mendel?

>>3016802
Archimedes

>>3016979
I like peas. Also, genetics is way more important than knowing evolution

>>3016802
Aristotle's thought on natural philosophy dominated the Western discussion for a thousand years, but what he was doing could not technically be called science. Darwin might be the 'strict scientist' who had the greatest influence on scientific thought, but Louis Pasteur's work has had the greatest effect on the lives of mankind. The germ theory of disease revolutionized the fields of medicine, public health, and biology and from Pasteur's research you have the opportunity to probably live a happy healthy life of 80 years and in developed countries a 99.8% chance of surviving childhood. How many of the influential people of the 20th c. would never had survived to do what they did were it not for pasteurization, immunization, and the other wonders of modern medicine?

>>3017074
Aristotle was a scientist. He thought the sun revolved around the Earth because there was no observable Parallax.

He set out a hypothesis, tested it, and concluded from there. That's literally all you have to do to be a scientist. It's not his fault he was wrong, and he was basically deified by the Arabs and Medieval Christians.

The same thing happened to Galen

>>3016999
Peas are fun. But I'd argue chemistry is more important for modern life, without the abbility to produce large amounts of specific chemicals and knowing their interactions the great discoveries of Pasteur et al. would be only theoretical. Also fertilizer

>>3016802
Francis Bacon

what with inventing science and all

>>3017489
This

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Fritz Haber

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

>>3017507

Due to its dramatic impact on the human ability to grow food, the Haber process served as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to today's 7 billion.[20] Nearly 80% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber-Bosch process.[21] Since nitrogen use efficiency is typically less than 50%,[22] farm runoff from heavy use of fixed industrial nitrogen disrupts biological habitats

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>>3016802

>>3017507
>Fritz
No
>>3017489
>Magic talking demon head

>>3017529
and >>3016810 believed in Alchemy

doesn't tarnish the influence

>>3017536
Alchemy is literally real. It's just called Chemistry now

>>3017507
>The Haber process
>ignoring it was originally the Haber-Bosch process
>ignoring the process was used to make chemical weapons which killed uknown millions

I love Jewish historical revision

>>3017549

Chemical weapons have not killed a single million people.

>>3017526
I wish to know everything pertinent about these individuals, but in a very short span of time. Can you assist me?

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>>3017557
Haha, you surely mean in combat, anon. Chemical weapons have never killed a million people in combat

Aristotle

>>3017570

Regardless of context.

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>>3017580
Oh no, oh jeez

Hellenistic science doesn't get enough love.

Zenon of Kition: matters is continuous, finite, passive

Epicurus of Athens: atoms and void

Pyrrhon of Elis: stochasmos (observation, empiricism,

>>3017589

Your fault for making such a retarded claim, you'll say conventional explosives are chemical weapons next.

>>3017590
Coming up with the "atoms and void" at his time seems really impressive to me. I mean I know it's barebones, but still, that's a pretty strong deduction.

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>>3017601
Parmenides deduced that Time was dimensional

>>3017601
Hellenistic era science was amazing.

"Lol what do I do with all this money?" - Alexander the Great
"Pay the philosophers lots of money." - Aristotle
"Lol okay." - Alexander

That's how you end up with the Library of Alexandria et al.

>>3017074
Fritz Habor and his method of nitrogen fixation could be seen as saving more lives tbqh

>>3016958
Came here to post this.

>>3017549
Plenty of discoveries in chemistry are later weaponized. You're retarded.

>much haber-bosch

How much do you talk about Alfred Wallace compared to Charles Darwin when discussing early evolutionary theory? People generally find hyphenated words uglier and harder to remember. It's pretty shitty revisionism to mention Bosch on the first sentence of the Wikipedia article.

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>>3016802
>ctrl + f "von Neumann"
>0 results
Pathetic.

>>3017549
>ignoring the process was used to make chemical weapons which killed uknown millions

Retarded much? Haber pioneered the use of a waste product of the chemical industry, chlorine, as a chemical weapon. The process itself is only very indirectly linked to ANY kind of chemical weapon.

>>3017549

>>3017524

Completely ignoring that I see, if that is not the most influential thing in human history then I don't know what is.

>>3017547
Alchemy is arguably proto-chemistry. But no, it is not real.

despite the Einstein meme, one would expect that because of the nature of their discoveries theoretical physicists would be more influential in the world. By that I mean Heisenberg, Bohr, Feynman etc.

The most their discoveries have contributed is the Atom bomb, and the large hadron collider.

>>3019899
Technically it was Otto Hahn and his team (chemists) who discoverd nuclear fission, with Lise Meitner explaining it based on Einstein.
Heisenberg and Bohr did a lot more for the basis of the modern theory (orbital theory) and science of chemistry.