Who was the greatest scientist/engineer of all time 12

[friartuck]

I don't know whether anyone has asked this one before but I was interested to hear who would be considered the greatest scientist or engineer of all time.

I can think of many from the dim and distant past including Archimedes, Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Louis Pascal and the great Einstein. How would the modern day scientists rate when compared to these great people.

Which one had the greatest impact on our lives?

And if they were all alive today....with the added benefit of computers and the W.W.W., just think what they could have achieved (perhaps computers might even have hindered them...who knows?)

Any thoughts?

Friar Tuck of Sherwood

 

[friartuck]

I thought interchangeable parts came about through the rifle and having to make guns that had interchangeable components??

Perhaps that was thought of by Simeon North?? (whoever he is..sorry for my ignorance)

Friar Tuck of Sherwood

 

[arto]

Actually he started with pistols:

http://www.americanprecision.org/HFNorth.html

 

[ewh]

I believe credit does go to the colt pistol. Cadillac was the first (at least in the US) automaker to do this, and won the Dewars trophy in or around 1910 as a result.

 

[NickelMet]

For all you TREKKIES...

Inventor: Zefram Cochrane (warp drive)
Engineer: Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (Enterprise fixer upper)
Scientist: Noonien Soong (cyberneticist, creator of Data)
Medical Doctor: Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy
Interplanetary Statesman: Ambassador Sarek
Starship Captain: Jean Luc Picard

<LOL> ... relax it is Wednesday! Time for a bit of levity.

~NiM