Histories greatest scienctists!

[Razgovory]

Raz, like the thread title but feel 'gratest , 'grateus' would have improved it.


edit:
I should add, I don't know enough about science to answer. 

And the correct spelling of history's

I was T-minus one nap-time.  I had an extremely short schedule.

[The Brain]

How is sprint performance being selected for with slavery on sugar plantations?  I'm not a farmer, but I'm pretty sure you don't harvest sugar beets by chasing them down and grabbing them.

[Admiral Yi]

How is sprint performance being selected for with slavery on sugar plantations?  I'm not a farmer, but I'm pretty sure you don't harvest sugar beets by chasing them down and grabbing them.

Sugar beets are slow, which is why there are few well-known East European sprinters.  Sugar *cane*, which was and is grown in the Caribbean and parts of the American South, is fast as lightning.

I do know that the mortality rate for slaves involved in sugar production was very high, I believe primarily in the cooking stage, when a lot of slaves suffered burns.  The rest is speculative.

[Martinus]

Newton was a crazy religious celibate AFAIK.

I didn't realize only heterosexual people can be celibate. 

[Martinus]

-The Jamaican Track Team Doctor: Logic says the fastest runners shouldn't all come from a shitty island in the Caribbean. Yet the Americans are the ones getting busted for drug use.

Disagree.  Sugar plantation slave labor was accelerated Darwinism.

Why would working on a Jamaican plantation result in better sprinters, but apparently not American plantations?

Also, I don't think there is really an evidence slavery had the impact you describe.

Maybe Jamaican slaves weren't lazy?

[Eddie Teach]

I didn't realize some hackademic* "reading between the lines" and outing a historical figure on little evidence made it so. /shrug

*Did I just coin this? That would be awesome. But unlikely. 

[Brazen]

Newton was a crazy religious celibate AFAIK.

"Confirmed bachelor"

[Brazen]

I'll take this as a "name women scientists and engineers without mentioning Marie Curie" challenge:
Ada Lovelace
Margaret Hamilton
Hedy Lamarr
Rosalind Franklin
Dorothy Hodgkin

[Syt]

Hedy Lamarr

It's Hedley!

[Berkut]

I'll take this as a "name women scientists and engineers without mentioning Marie Curie" challenge:
Ada Lovelace
Margaret Hamilton
Hedy Lamarr
Rosalind Franklin
Dorothy Hodgkin

Yep, that covers them! Well done.

[Syt]

For Germany I would add Emmy Noether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

[Valmy]

History's greatest scientists?

I will just post this:



Marty can tell you which ones are gay.

[Martinus]

Meh, it's all relative or uncertain with some of these guys. And one of them has been mean to cats.

[Valmy]

Meh, it's all relative or uncertain with some of these guys. And one of them has been mean to cats.

[The Brain]

I do know that the mortality rate for slaves involved in sugar production was very high, I believe primarily in the cooking stage, when a lot of slaves suffered burns.  The rest is speculative.

Caramel babies are nice though.