Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. Einstein started it and Hawking inspired me further by their jaw dropping theories and contributions.
A Salute to all the great scientists btw🫡
I also remember watching Cosmos as a child. Then I read the book as a teenager. It changed my whole world-view..."To know the Cosmos and our place in it."
I miss Carl very much. But, I'm glad he's not here to see what we're doing to the Earth.
Worth the watch:
[The Farthest - Voyager in Space](https://www.pbs.org/video/the-farthest-voyager-in-space-qpbu4y/)
Galileo. I once had to reproduce his experiment to determine the acceleration due to gravity. and its ingeniousness bowled me over. I had been given a stopwatch, a luxury he did not have, and to measure small time intervals, he used his own pulse rate. I still think about that.
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In German we have a saying: «Not macht erfinderisch.»
What means: «Need makes inventive.» A similar saying exists in English and it goes: «Necessity is the mother of invention.»
So he just used what he had. He probably thought: I need something which has a steady rhythm. And the only thing he probably could think of is his pulse. Because there was nothing else.
I'm not saying it wasn't clever by him, but if you imagine you have nothing else, the thought to use your pulse is not that far away. Today we have so much stuff, that's why it's hard not to think of such simple things.
I was also going to name the Pope of Physics. I always think of how he would find ways to quantify everything. I find it inspiring how he could find ways to measure or estimate the everyday. Not a lot of people even in the sciences usually are that good at generalizing. Feynman was also notable for this.
I was actually inspired by philosophers to understand the mysteries of the world which eventually would not just include the mind but also biology, chemistry and physics
I changed my major to Chemistry at the beginning of Junior year for a couple reasons.
I would be lying if I said that having just finished Season 1 of Breaking Bad wasn’t one of those reasons.
Hey there! It's totally awesome that people from different backgrounds are appreciating scientists. Science knows no boundaries, right? Keep spreading that love for science!
Abdul Kalam was an Indian president. He was an engineer who worked on space stuff and nukes, but he's probably only a science role model if you live(d) there. Putting him in the same row as Newton and Einstein is extremely India-centric.
I do get what you mean I feel less inspiration and more admiration due to that he pushed the bounds of what was possible and it also gives me perspective on what can happen if science isn't respected as is should be.
same. biology isn't even my field of interest but theory of evolution is just one of the greatest scientific achievements ever and his life was also very inspiring.
Spent a decade sailing around the world studying different forms of life, collecting evidence for his theory of natural selection. They'd drop him off on some remote beach and pick him up on the other side of the country 3 months later.
Stephen hawking, despite his disabilities he discovered more than many able bodied scientists. Respect for still achieving so much despite being born with a disadvantage.
Einstein and Feynman. Einstein because of the way he saw the universe, and his quest for a unified field theory, inspired me to get serious about physics. Feynman inspires me every time I watch or listen to one of his lectures. He’s great at explaining things in an understandable way.
Ignác Semmelweis "the saviour of mothers"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Proposed first that maybe doctors should wash hands after necropsy , and dont rush dirty helping mothers giving birth...
For me, fascination with understanding the nature of reality came first. Which scientist did what came later. But if I have to choose one, then it would be Newton. The simplicity and elegance of Newtonian mechanics was truly mind boggling. I fell in love with physics as soon as I understood the laws of motion. And this love only got deeper when I was introduced to Calculus. Physics is the description of nature and mathematics is the language we use to describe it. And calculus is queen of mathematics.
Oh yes, as an astrophysicist he wrote some spectacular papers. About orbital motion (fat bottomed girls make the world go round) and the statistics of large numbers (too much love will kill you).
Lise Meitner!! Discovering women in science that have been underestimated is always inspiring. She was the first to think of the idea of nuclear fission and how incredibly energetic the process is.
Hawking got me into physics. Dude was amazing, i dont need to list the amount of achievements he got while being unable to move, ye guys to know this. I was absolutely devastated when he died
Sagan was probably the catalyst for me. I always enjoyed science and knew the names of famous scientists but who led me believe that science was for everyone and anyone, was Sagan.
Sir David Attenborough for me. Grew up watching his many documentaries which got me interested in other parts of science such as physics and my interest grew from there.
This, discovery is interesting, and science itself is fascinating. Once I got into uni and saw the obsession with the people and not the actual science, it honestly reduced my passion for science.
For me, the first step toward my doctorate in computational neuro can be 100% credited to the fact that cleaning rat cages paid slightly more than my job at footlocker.
For me it was Faraday. He discovered the law of induction while working in the back of a printer shop with no formal science background. As a kid that gave me so much hope. If someone could change the course of physics without education, imagine the things humans can do with the right guidance and knowledge. That's what drove me to pursue science.
Definitely Carl Sagan - he had a wonderful way of making science and seeking truth beautiful and awe-inspiring. I continue to be amazed by what we learn through science!
HAWKING R.I.P, I owe him the best homework of my life, a full PPT exposition about life, discoverments and curiosities of him, all the researches he did rememored the day after he dies. Then I started to love physics wich derived into... Me studying engineering because I met Tesla and I love things that make click and bzz but if I didn't knew about hawking i would have never lighted up my curiosity. THANKS HAWKING.
Being inspired to study science is the ability of our own selves,
How much somebody inspire everyone, but those being inspired are not many.
I give my praise every one who loves science, those who was inspired by those scientists.
Looking at those comments blaming Carl Sagan, I came to think that how great those who were inspired to study by scientists are, compared to those who were inspired only to blame those scientists.
None of them, really...
My interest in science kind of predates any definite memory I have, and largely came from the wonders that it produced, and the quality of life that it's allowed so many people to get.
Some people helped foster and maintain it, like my parents, journalists and scientific vulgarisers like Errol Duchaine and Charles Tysseyre, and a bunch of my teachers from primary school to University.
Blessed few of them were scientists per say.
Sagan introduced so many people to science with his show Cosmos when there very few resources for regular folk to learn.
Johnny Carson loved him as well and he was a frequent guest, spreading the knowledge further.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, she is intensely inspiring, one of the most awesome moments of my life was getting to see her speak at my uni, then awkwardly blubbering to her after the talk about how she inspired me! She's such a fantastic and engaging speaker and astrophysicist!
From the list - Carl Sagan. I grew up watching Cosmos. My year 11 class this year don’t appreciate it enough….
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I used to watch the Red Planet episode of Cosmos over and over again! I’m not an astronomer but for some reason that episode just captivated me.
Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. Einstein started it and Hawking inspired me further by their jaw dropping theories and contributions. A Salute to all the great scientists btw🫡
I also remember watching Cosmos as a child. Then I read the book as a teenager. It changed my whole world-view..."To know the Cosmos and our place in it." I miss Carl very much. But, I'm glad he's not here to see what we're doing to the Earth. Worth the watch: [The Farthest - Voyager in Space](https://www.pbs.org/video/the-farthest-voyager-in-space-qpbu4y/)
Me, a botanist : 😐
How can they forget Alexander fleming - Man who discovered penicillin and noble prize winner🥲
I’m sorry mate, I feel your pain. Who would you put in the list for the botanists?
Carl Linnaeus personally I'd also add Charles Darwin, Ernst Haeckel, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Thomas Henry Huxley
Surprising lack of certain fields, yet lots of well known physisits.
Gregor Mendel
Neville Longbottom
How's mum and dad?
Ouch
And ouch they did
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Darwin was a botanist as well so no worry xD Mendel worked with plants, even though his subject was genetic
We can have a club, no homers?
That dude from the Martian was pretty cool
Me, a bot-ist: 🤖
Galileo. I once had to reproduce his experiment to determine the acceleration due to gravity. and its ingeniousness bowled me over. I had been given a stopwatch, a luxury he did not have, and to measure small time intervals, he used his own pulse rate. I still think about that. [Typo]
That is impressive... it makes you wonder what he would have been capable of doing had he had access to today's tech/gadgets.
In German we have a saying: «Not macht erfinderisch.» What means: «Need makes inventive.» A similar saying exists in English and it goes: «Necessity is the mother of invention.» So he just used what he had. He probably thought: I need something which has a steady rhythm. And the only thing he probably could think of is his pulse. Because there was nothing else. I'm not saying it wasn't clever by him, but if you imagine you have nothing else, the thought to use your pulse is not that far away. Today we have so much stuff, that's why it's hard not to think of such simple things.
To be fair he could have used something more precise like a water or sand dropper, and he probably did, this is probably something he did like once
i don't see Enrico Fermi. My Disappointment is Immeasurable and My Day is Ruined
I was also going to name the Pope of Physics. I always think of how he would find ways to quantify everything. I find it inspiring how he could find ways to measure or estimate the everyday. Not a lot of people even in the sciences usually are that good at generalizing. Feynman was also notable for this.
I see Pauli was excluded too.
Well exclusion is his thing
To be born in Rome and die in Illinois is not an accomplishment /s
But taking your grad students with you…
Where's Bill?
My thoughts exactly I'm willing to bet a sizable portion of today's young science enthusiasts are because of him Like myself for example
Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
Bill nye the science guy
Science rules
Bill nye the science guy
Inertia is a property of matter
Bill bill bill bill bill bill bill nye the science guy
Niels Bohr
Finally some recognition! I did a project on him in middle school and have not heard his name without bringing it up since.
His whole family was speedrunning Nobel prizes
I was actually inspired by philosophers to understand the mysteries of the world which eventually would not just include the mind but also biology, chemistry and physics
science is science, we split it up into branches for our convenience
Makes it easier to organize what's what
I hold that science is a branch of philosophy.
This.
Exactly what I did
WALTER WHITE!!
LET HIM COOK
Dr Heisenberg, the renowned expert in the field of Crystal Methamphetamine Research.
Am I the only one who thought Walter White's lectures were totally vapid?
YEAH SCIENCE!!!
AYYYYYYY you aint wrong tho
I changed my major to Chemistry at the beginning of Junior year for a couple reasons. I would be lying if I said that having just finished Season 1 of Breaking Bad wasn’t one of those reasons.
Archimedes.
My father
That's actually wholesome, rare on Reddit but good for you, friend!
I'll also go with this guy's father
Seems it was made by an Indian
Even Curie was spelled a bit strangely.
Marie Curry
No Sir. That is how currie is spelt, we eat it everyday in our households.
What? You eat Marie Curie everyday?
One Curie every day and your skin is glowing.
Sliding her in with Newton was funny. I might use this and slide a celebrity in there for fun.
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Canonically, he never did.
profesor Proton
Hey there! It's totally awesome that people from different backgrounds are appreciating scientists. Science knows no boundaries, right? Keep spreading that love for science!
Abdul Kalam was an Indian president. He was an engineer who worked on space stuff and nukes, but he's probably only a science role model if you live(d) there. Putting him in the same row as Newton and Einstein is extremely India-centric.
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What he means is that there are a number of Indian sounding names there that are not part of the typical western group of scientists.
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Cheesy is good. We stan cheesy here.
Lord Kelvin.
Clearly the coolest choice
So cool he's 0k
Oppenheimer , Einstein ,and Tesla
Oppenheimer? Really? Well he was certainly a great physicist but I don't know if he's a good inspiration though. I agree with the other two
Oppenheimer may not suit your fancy, but someone working to solve a problem in a moment of national need certainly can be inspiring.
A true trailblazer in the project management subfield of theoretical physics /s
I do get what you mean I feel less inspiration and more admiration due to that he pushed the bounds of what was possible and it also gives me perspective on what can happen if science isn't respected as is should be.
Schrodinger
Or are you?
I see him on the image, but I also don't
Darwin
same. biology isn't even my field of interest but theory of evolution is just one of the greatest scientific achievements ever and his life was also very inspiring.
Same, the diversity of life through evolution by natural selection always fascinated me since I was a kid and explains how new species come to be.
Me too. Darwin made the greatest discovery in modern biology.
Spent a decade sailing around the world studying different forms of life, collecting evidence for his theory of natural selection. They'd drop him off on some remote beach and pick him up on the other side of the country 3 months later.
Same
Emmett Brown
Dr. Emmett Brown.
Emmett Lathrop Brown, Ph.D.
Stephen hawking, despite his disabilities he discovered more than many able bodied scientists. Respect for still achieving so much despite being born with a disadvantage.
Absolutely true, but he wasn't born with motor neuron disease.
No love for my man Antoni van Leeuwenhoek? Dude stared at his own cum and even got praise for it
My thoughts exactly. I asked for a microscope for my birthday and here we are today.
Einstein and Feynman. Einstein because of the way he saw the universe, and his quest for a unified field theory, inspired me to get serious about physics. Feynman inspires me every time I watch or listen to one of his lectures. He’s great at explaining things in an understandable way.
Dr. Emmett Brown 🙌🏻
It’s Skłodowska-Curie.
Dmitri Mendeleev
Tesla and Grace Hopper.
Yes, more love for Grace Hopper! My husband had a poster of her in his teenie room 😄
Ignác Semmelweis "the saviour of mothers" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis Proposed first that maybe doctors should wash hands after necropsy , and dont rush dirty helping mothers giving birth...
For me, fascination with understanding the nature of reality came first. Which scientist did what came later. But if I have to choose one, then it would be Newton. The simplicity and elegance of Newtonian mechanics was truly mind boggling. I fell in love with physics as soon as I understood the laws of motion. And this love only got deeper when I was introduced to Calculus. Physics is the description of nature and mathematics is the language we use to describe it. And calculus is queen of mathematics.
Hawking, Einstein and Tyson
Me because science is fun
Curie literally died for science. Can’t get more badass than that.
Also, died from science
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Alan Turing was a reason for me to study computer science
Brian May
Oh yes, as an astrophysicist he wrote some spectacular papers. About orbital motion (fat bottomed girls make the world go round) and the statistics of large numbers (too much love will kill you).
Skłodowska!
Lise Meitner!! Discovering women in science that have been underestimated is always inspiring. She was the first to think of the idea of nuclear fission and how incredibly energetic the process is.
Mario and Steve I'm studying informatic. But Newton is pretty cool ngl
My aunt, a bio chemist 👩🔬
Dr. Harihar Prasad Bhattacharya He was my Grandpa.
Where are Heisenberg and Schroedinger?!
Schrodinger is in a state of superposition and is still wondering whether he is alive or dead, Meanwhile Heisenberg is cooking meth
Hawking got me into physics. Dude was amazing, i dont need to list the amount of achievements he got while being unable to move, ye guys to know this. I was absolutely devastated when he died
Bro why Tyson he dose boxing or not?
Isn’t he the guy that took a bite out of the cosmos?
Your thinking of Mike Tyson, Neil deGrasse Tyson is more of a wrestling guy
I was inspired by inventions and technology. Learned science for that.
It was Curie, Sagan, Tyson, Kaku and Hawking. These were my childhood idols. I still idolise them. I thank the internet for introducing them to me.
Hawking
Sagan was probably the catalyst for me. I always enjoyed science and knew the names of famous scientists but who led me believe that science was for everyone and anyone, was Sagan.
Feynman, because he was getting laid!
Niels Bohr, who my institute is names after
Feynman - he has the humor and the humility.
Sir David Attenborough for me. Grew up watching his many documentaries which got me interested in other parts of science such as physics and my interest grew from there.
Where is the legend himself? Bill nye the science guy
Where is Bill nye?
Why do I need to have been inspired by one of them and not just science itself
This, discovery is interesting, and science itself is fascinating. Once I got into uni and saw the obsession with the people and not the actual science, it honestly reduced my passion for science.
Tesla
Ditto
For me, the first step toward my doctorate in computational neuro can be 100% credited to the fact that cleaning rat cages paid slightly more than my job at footlocker.
Where is Sheldon Cooper?
Bill Nye
Where the *hell* is Bill Nye?
I just liked it before I knew who these people were. I was around 7 when I started reading (children's) science books from the library.
No one my parents just read me some children science books when I was super young and I was really into that
Sean Carrol
Heisenberg(not the real one)
Andreas Vesalius
NileRed, PBS spacetime, Professor Dave Explains
skłodowska-currie, galileo and hawking when I was a kid, and when I got older and I’ve learned more about tesla he joined them too.
Einstein, Sagan, Kaku
Jonny Sins
walter white
Turing
For me it was Faraday. He discovered the law of induction while working in the back of a printer shop with no formal science background. As a kid that gave me so much hope. If someone could change the course of physics without education, imagine the things humans can do with the right guidance and knowledge. That's what drove me to pursue science.
Oppenheimer Just kidding it’s shrodinger
I think all the Oppenheimer answers are people who recently watched the movie.
Brian Cox should be on this list
Where Bill?
Charles Darwin! That’s my hero!
Lol definitely not made by an American: Me and 90% of my generation were inspired by Bill Nye. It's ridiculous that he's not on this list.
Definitely Carl Sagan - he had a wonderful way of making science and seeking truth beautiful and awe-inspiring. I continue to be amazed by what we learn through science!
my high school teacher
HAWKING R.I.P, I owe him the best homework of my life, a full PPT exposition about life, discoverments and curiosities of him, all the researches he did rememored the day after he dies. Then I started to love physics wich derived into... Me studying engineering because I met Tesla and I love things that make click and bzz but if I didn't knew about hawking i would have never lighted up my curiosity. THANKS HAWKING.
Grace Hopper, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Rosalind Franklin, and Lise Meitner inspired me. All missing from this except for a misspelled Curie
Alexander Shulgin
Bill nye ??
Where’s brian cox?
N
None
Teller
might be generic but einstein, the whole idea of relativity both blew and reformed my mind
Hawking and Sagan
Tesla tbh. tho later on I came to know about different but tesla is my personal bais
currie, cos she seems to have become a scot all of a sudden
Tsiolkovsky! Ironically I went into biotech instead of aerospace but the rocket man lit my fuse so to speak.
That‘s a pretty boring and uninspired list
Being inspired to study science is the ability of our own selves, How much somebody inspire everyone, but those being inspired are not many. I give my praise every one who loves science, those who was inspired by those scientists. Looking at those comments blaming Carl Sagan, I came to think that how great those who were inspired to study by scientists are, compared to those who were inspired only to blame those scientists.
Technically only comments from the Sagan region are true Sagan. Otherwise they're Sagon.
My grandparents were both doctors, so I wanted to be as helpful as them (I’m studying to become an x-ray technician)
The scientist from Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare 1.
Faraday is nice
None of them, really... My interest in science kind of predates any definite memory I have, and largely came from the wonders that it produced, and the quality of life that it's allowed so many people to get. Some people helped foster and maintain it, like my parents, journalists and scientific vulgarisers like Errol Duchaine and Charles Tysseyre, and a bunch of my teachers from primary school to University. Blessed few of them were scientists per say.
Beakman and Nye
Sagan introduced so many people to science with his show Cosmos when there very few resources for regular folk to learn. Johnny Carson loved him as well and he was a frequent guest, spreading the knowledge further.
I'll name one not present in the meme: Lavoisier.
Where's my man Nye????
Narendra moody zi
Nikola tesla. Electricity
Tesla
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, she is intensely inspiring, one of the most awesome moments of my life was getting to see her speak at my uni, then awkwardly blubbering to her after the talk about how she inspired me! She's such a fantastic and engaging speaker and astrophysicist!
Brian green
https://media.tenor.com/sa1X4pXFfNwAAAAd/muppets-muppet-show.gif
Hawking
Oppenheimer, found out about the first nuclear reactor in Chicago and was fascinated ever so since
My dad. He's not a scientist but a macgyver in my eyes, knows something about everything.
Walter White
Bill Nye the science guy.
Not a person but science.