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Originally Posted by dpbuttram
Field names?
1. Archimedes
2. Curie
3. Newton
4. Galileo
5. proposed - Pythagoras
6. proposed - Hubble
7. proposed - Euclid
8. proposed - Kepler
Any other suggestions?
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I may be biased since he grew up near my hometown, but I'd like to nominate
Claude Shannon
All of the mathematics that go into modern communication was created by Shannon. This guy was brilliant. Everything about your cell phone, internet connection, digital TV, and virtually everything else in modern communications can be attributed to Claude Shannon - and the most amazing part is he did it all in 1948! Talk about being ahead of his time - it took around 40 years before most of his work could even be put to the test. He is a true "rock star" role model in that all current students could relate - especially given their propensity to use a cell phone.
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...the perspective introduced by Shannon's communication theory (now called information theory) is the foundation of the digital revolution, and every device containing a microprocessor or microcontroller is a conceptual descendant of Shannon's publication in 1948: "He's one of the great men of the century. Without him, none of the things we know today would exist. The whole digital revolution started with him."
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