List here in the comments a person you think has been the most influential in terms of advancing human knowledge and technology. Please also say what they are noteworthy for and why you think it is so important. Justify your opinion.
More tasks later - let's see who we come up with first...
Here's a little help from a person on the net...
http://www.dlmark.net/hundred.htm
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Revised and Updated for the Nineties
by Michael H. Hart
Mr. Hart's very interesting book contains biographies of all the following people, ranked in order from most influential to less influential, along with the author's reasons for so ranking them. The book is available at most bookstores and libraries.
The links will take you to a site on the Web about the person named
(not to a chapter in the book).
• Muhammad • Isaac Newton • Jesus Christ • Buddha • Confucius • St. Paul • Ts'ai Lun • Johann Gutenberg • Christopher Columbus • Albert Einstein • Louis Pasteur • Galileo Galilei • Aristotle • Euclid • Moses • Charles Darwin • Shih Huang Ti • Augustus Caesar • Nicolaus Copernicus • Antoine Laurent Lavoisier • Constantine the Great • James Watt • Michael Faraday • James Clerk Maxwell • Martin Luther • George Washington • Karl Marx • Orville and Wilbur Wright • Genghis Kahn • Adam Smith • Edward de Vere • John Dalton • Alexander the Great • Napoleon Bonaparte • Thomas Edison • Antony van Leeuwenhoek • William T.G. Morton • Guglielmo Marconi • Adolf Hitler • Plato • Oliver Cromwell • Alexander Graham Bell • Alexander Fleming • John Locke • Ludwig van Beethoven • Werner Heisenberg • Louis Daguerre • Simon Bolivar • Rene Descartes • Michelangelo • Pope Urban II • 'Umar ibn al-Khattab • Asoka • St. Augustine • William Harvey • Ernest Rutherford • John Calvin • Gregor Mendel • Max Planck • Joseph Lister • Nikolaus August Otto • Francisco Pizarro • Hernando Cortes • Thomas Jefferson • Queen Isabella I • Joseph Stalin • Julius Caesar • William the Conqueror • Sigmund Freud • Edward Jenner • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen • Johann Sebastian Bach • Lao Tzu • Voltaire • Johannes Kepler • Enrico Fermi • Leonhard Euler • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Nicoli Machiavelli • Thomas Malthus • John F. Kennedy • Gregory Pincus • Mani • Lenin • Sui Wen Ti • Vasco da Gama • Cyrus the Great • Peter the Great • Mao Zedong • Francis Bacon • Henry Ford • Mencius • Zoroaster • Queen Elizabeth I • Mikhail Gorbachev • Menes • Charlemagne • Homer • Justinian I • Mahavira •
Runner-ups:
• St. Thomas Aquinas • Archimedes • Charles Babbage • Cheops • Marie Curie • Benjamin Franklin • Mohandas Gandhi • Abraham Lincoln • Ferdinand Magellan • Leonardo da Vinci •
Biographies and other information about many of these people and their works may be found at Access Foundation's Encyclopedia Britannica's Great Books site.
15 comments:
I think it was Albert Einstein mostle for his E=Mc2
Da Vinci or Thomas Edison.
Gnome - well done taking time to answer. COuld you explain why Einstein's theory is important? What about his other theories? How do they help us?
Cheetalicious - you need to re-read the instructions, but thanks for your answers.
Hi. I agree with cheetahlicious. thomas edison invented the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. i have some information on him so here it is:homas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, and was raised in Port Huron, Michigan. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804–1896) (born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada) and Nancy Matthews Edison nee Elliott (1810–1871). His family was of Dutch origin.[1]
Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention which first gained him fame was the phonograph in 1877. This accomplishment was so unexpected by the public at large as to appear almost magical. Edison became known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," New Jersey, where he lived. His first phonograph recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder and had poor sound quality. The tinfoil recordings could only be replayed a few times. In the 1880s, a redesigned model using wax-coated cardboard cylinders was produced by Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Tainter. This was one reason that Thomas Edison continued work on his own "Perfected Phonograph."
I got that information from this website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
and it has all his details, his inventions, how he died, beginning his carrer and mostly everything else.=]
ok bye!!!
excellent work, kittymilo :-)
Stephen Hawking because at the moment he's the smartest man in the world. He might have not invented something but he knows a lot about space and has a new theory on black holes which you can learn more about this theory in a book called George's secret key to the universe. His daughter wrote the book with him.
I tottaly agree with Kitty Milo, where would we be with out light?!
My person whould be Homer - they have it listed!!! Weird. I don't think Homer Simpson has influenced me - at ALL!
I also agree with Mojo - Stephen Hawkings because he is the smaterest man in the world! Him and his daughter wrote a book about space (obviously).
hmmm... co-writing book with one's daughter doesn't really seem like the most influential thing to humankind's understanding of the world, etc..
he is influential though - what are his famous theories ?
and Neina-marie - the Homer in question is not yellow or a cartoon - read to find out more
I think all of the people on there deserve to be up there.The gods,the smart ones,the good queens,the famous inventers and the painters.
sorry I haven't been on the blog for awhile. I don't know the name of the person who made it/invented it but I say that the man/women who invented the wheel was by far the biggest advance in technology. without the wheel where would we be? Here is a list of thing we used/use a wheel for:
carriages
cars
Watermills.
Windmills.
Making energy.
Bikes.
We even use the wheel when we make products.
There are lots more but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
I think the wheel was made in caveman times. My previous teacher showed me a book about who made the wheel but I don't know whether it was true or not.
Without the wheel mankind would be skidded to a halt.
We could keep on living not knowing about gravity, about Ohms law,the theory of relativity and so on but without the wheel what would use for a substitute? A cube?
How could the Romans have moved their leaders in carriages if there were no wheels?
In defense people might say 'well, we could go on living without the wheel too' that may be true, but it would be a pretty dull life, having to ride on horses all the time.
P.S. I know nearly all of the inventors in that list (Not personally) and what they did.
mechboy that is an excellent answer - well done. you have made me think of something else that was 'discovered' but not invented that is up there with the wheel.
and i am now thinking of another range of substances that are very important that were discover by people and changed to become new and more useful substances....
Is it fire?
I'm stumped, I don't know which person to chose.
Do the you get marks vary depending on which person you chose?
im going to have to go with witch ever guy makes me read about him although wise i dont and wont know any one write now its steven hawkins because it seems cool to type using your eyeses
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