“The Most Famous Scientists in the World”

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This scientist made the greatest contribution to science in all of history. He was born in Germany and became the most famous physicist in history.

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Nikola Tesla — the author of about 800 inventions in the field of electrical and radio engineering.

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Thomas Edison was an American inventor who obtained 1,093 patents in the United States and about 3,000 in other countries. He created the phonograph, improved the telegraph, telephone, and motion picture equipment, and developed one of the first commercially successful versions of the incandescent light bulb.

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The very first phrase transmitted by telephone was: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”

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Marie Curie received two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, thus becoming the only woman in history to be awarded the highest scientific honor twice.

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Ernest Rutherford devoted his entire life to physics, but he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On this occasion, he joked that he had seen many interesting transformations in his life, but the most surprising one was Rutherford’s transformation from a physicist into a chemist.

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Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous modern physicists, taught mathematics at Oxford for a long time without having a formal degree in mathematics! Moreover, when Hawking gave lectures, he was only about two weeks ahead of his students in the course material.

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Eugene Shoemaker was an American astronomer and is the only human whose ashes are on the Moon. A capsule with his cremated remains was delivered to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector spacecraft in 1999.

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Charles Darwin studied nature from many perspectives, including a culinary one. While studying at Cambridge University, he was even a member of a “Gourmet Club.” There, he tried exotic dishes such as roasted hawk and baked buzzard. He ended his culinary experiments after he tried eating an old owl, which turned out to be extremely tough and unpleasant.

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Isaac Newton was a great physicist but a poor lecturer. When he was asked to give lectures at Trinity College, he did it so boringly that students would fall asleep in rows during his classes.

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Isaac Newton was a member of the House of Lords and did not miss a single session. However, to everyone’s surprise, he never made any speeches in Parliament. Once, he unexpectedly asked to speak, and everyone expected something profound. Instead, he simply said: “Gentlemen, please close the window — there is a draft! I’m afraid of catching a cold!” This was the first and only speech of the great physicist in the House of Lords.

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Niels Bohr in his youth was interested in football. He was such a good goalkeeper that he even played several times for the national team. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1922, one newspaper reported the event with the headline: “The famous footballer Bohr receives the Nobel Prize.”