Nerdy Science Blog

I saw an interesting post at John Hawks Anthropology Weblog writing who he thinks are the top five scientists who made the modern world asked by James Randerson. In stead of giving the same old Newton and guys, he listed the following people:

1. R. A. Fisher
2. Louis Pasteur
3. Leo Szilárd
4. John von Neumann
5. ME!

I am going to list my own top five scientists here that makes my modern world, I gonna leave out the classical ones as well:

1. Thomas Alva Edison - without him, there will be no light. some say he’s just an inventor, not a scientist. There are also a lot of things he invented which are important in our modern world.
2. Julius Richard Petri - he created petri dish, and later his wife came up with the idea using agar to culture microorganisms. If there was no petri dish created, we might still be streaking our culture on some meats.
3. Rosalind Franklin - the woman always being forgotten in the structure of double helix. Without her X-ray diffraction images of DNA, Francis Crick and James D. Watson could not came up with the theory of double helical structure of DNA.
4. Louis Pasteur - a great man.
5. Clarence Cook Little - funny name, but he is the breeder of today’s modern laboratory mouse.

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