5 Scientists Too Smart for Their Time

[@unsapient2197]

My Bio II teacher in highschool was awesome. On our first genetics/DNA test he told us in advance that one of the fill in the blank answers was going to be "Rosalind Franklin" and also that it was going to be the ONLY time throughout the whole year that he would deduct points for misspelling. He wanted to make DAMN sure that we remembered her name.

[@ecospider5]

That’s awesome

[@moose6781]

@@ecospider5 My school did the opposite...

[@shashankbj3804]

Damn gotta love that guy for it

[@foragegrasspause2gotoloop961]

I have her picture in my room still. Doesn't detract from how she was done dirty, but I always loved the idea that you can benefit mankind, few may remember your name, but your impact is no less (along with Joseph Priestly, who took us from alchemy to chemistry in the discovery of oxygen, but very few know his name).

[@brooklyna007]

@@foragegrasspause2gotoloop961 It does indeed detract from how she was done dirty. We all only get one life. The biggest damage to her was taking the best thing she ever did in that short life and removing the ability for that immense contribution to let her legacy live on forever. By acknowledging her immense contribution and spreading the word, you are undoing that damage.

[@lysmith3454]

I remember in middle school, I got an assignment where we had to choose a scientist and make a presentation about them. I was upset at first that i got Ada Lovelace because I thought that her discovery would be something stupid because I had never heard of her. But then, when I started doing research about her and learned that she was considered the first computer programmer of all time when she was back in the 19th century, all I could think was "How come i've never heard of her????!!!".

[@Genzafel]

As a programmer I have a deep respect for Ada Lovelace, she was a pioneer

[@harrietharlow9929]

Women in science have often got short shrift and weren't mentioned. Probable because of sexism.

[@2sexyfomyshirt]

@@harrietharlow9929 Well duh, woman can't do math that's preposterous *said every 19th century man*

[@walterbushell7029]

@@harrietharlow9929 Sexism for sure is a factor. Fame and recognition even in modern times comes down to a cock fight. It's a great disadvantage not to have one.

[@sophiabeatty3270]

Thank you ms. Franklin. Boo Watson &crick

[@KnittingPasta]

Ada Lovelace might be my favorite. “Enchantress of Numbers” , respected as an acolyte and peer by a Cambridge Professor in the arcane world of rudimentary computers, IN THE 1800s!

[@dannyhanny1191]

One has to wonder how much farther ahead we'd all be had these scientists, and their peers, lived full lives.

[@drippingwax]

How many of them died of cancer?!

[@RichardWilkin]

@@drippingwax 4 died of cancer, and the other one froze to death. 😪

[@sly-fi6502]

Especially women and people of color

[@colbyr7811]

Or if things such as The Church didn't spend nearly 2,000 years attacking and attempting to hide science, literally killing and/or excommunicating people who made discoveries that went against their rules.

[@Софија-крафт]

​@@sly-fi6502what do people of colour have to do with it if you count middle easterners as POC well... Islamic golden age

[@TacComControl]

Another physicist that people have no idea who is, typically, is Alfred Mayer. And if you're wondering who that is, you basically owe everything you are doing right now, in this very moment, to his discovery. Mayer's work was among the first to show conclusively that certain low tones could effectively completely override certain higher ones, which meant that you could mask audio frequencies just by playing certain lower ones on top of them. Now, this might sound weird as compared to everything else, but this was back in 1894, two years before Mayer sadly passed away. It wasn't until 1959 that another scientist by the name of Richard Ehmer would describe a full spread of frequencies that would act this way, and later still, for that set to be refined to a proper pattern. So what does this have to do with what you're doing right now? Well, basically everything. For one, it helped to explain why analog recordings of sound would miss certain things that people knew were there, things that couldn't be explained simply by the limited frequency response of the audio recorder or playback devices, but it also paved the way to creating algorithms, work that started all the way back in the '80s, that could work its way through a digital audio file, which were uncompromisingly huge at the time, and find every frequency that was rendered inaudible by the lower frequences, based on this psychoauditory masking phenomenon, and just... get rid of them. Early versions didn't work well, and required processing power that was, for the time, immense, but the very first file known as an MP3 was born. It, of course, sounded terrible, and barely ran, considering the amount of processing power required to run the codecs at the time was just... something that home computers simply couldn't manage, and the compression still wasn't great, but it was refined over time, and the small size of music files and the ease of distribution over even slow internet connections like dialup set in motion the ability, in the '90s, to distribute these files to whomever you chose over basic HTTP downloads, which meant that bands could drop their labels and distribute straight to fans if they so chose. More importantly, the fact that the compression, which in later implementations could be done on the fly towards the late 90s due to increases in compute power and codec efficiency, meant the production of a very, very small amount of file bandwidth per second meant that these files could not only be Downloaded quickly, but Streamed, which helped to give birth to some awful attempts at streaming services for music(through programs like RealPlayer), but eventually, to something called Shoutcast, which was one of the first services to successfully digitally distribute podcasts in real time. Between the streaming of media, the downloadability of MP3 files, and the fact that more and more people were able to edit and dub sound files in their home and create spoken-word prose and "rants" via the medium, the home PC suddenly wasn't just seen as a way to play video games or do office work anymore. Suddenly the home PC was a Media machine, and the user expectation of one's internet connection being capable of being a multimedia entertainment source came very much to the forefront. Truncated audio "rants", employing the audio equivalent of jump cuts in order to reduce file size, began to set the user expectation that entertainment could be Punchier, that it could be Faster, non-stop, and cater to shorter attention spans, and Shoutcast stations often coming alongside IRC chatrooms began to create the expectation of entertainment Communities, where groups of people would come together from all over the world to listen to and discuss these broadcasts, even though the number of concurrent users on a broadcast was severely limited. Shoutcast would later experiment with Video streaming(It was horrible), and some Shoutcast station celebrities(if you can call them that) like Sean Kennedy, 2 Gryphon, etc, would begin to create small videos that could be downloaded from their personal sites, often choppily edited and jump-cut heavy, but it would be another few years until a small "Video Dating Site" would ask a forum to populate their site with videos, and be swarmed with videos about cats. That site? Was KZbin. In a major way, through a series of unintended consequences, everything that is New Media, everything that is Streaming Digital Media, everything that is Global Digital Media distribution, owes some of its very first steps to an aging old physicist from the east coast who, in his later years, had to turn down positions on the National Academy of Sciences because his eyesight had gotten so bad.

[@philnovo1832]

Too much writing. Please summarize and post, then delete this post. Let me know when you are done

[@nycrsny3406]

Thanks for taking the time to write this, had never heard about him.

[@Glossen]

Teacher: What did Watson and Crick discover? Answer: Rosalind Franklin's notes.

[@Koozomec]

Franklin took a good picture, Watson and Crick told what the picture was.

[@ClarenceCreekwater]

The structure of DNA

[@urmorph]

Unfair but funny. Like: What do you call a stolen Tesla? A. An Edison.

[@urmorph]

@Dr. M. H. Nobody works in a cultural vacuum. Newton or Leibniz?

[@ranveerdeshmukh0410]

@@Koozomec As if franklin wasn't smart enough to figure out whta the the picture was all about😒😒

[@graham1034]

Not sure how Maxwell is undervalued. Anyone that studies physics knows how big of a deal he was. I guess he's not a household name in the way that Newton and Einstein are.

[@MrPoornakumar]

Graham X ! JC Maxwell's greatest inventions were these: He was the first to draw an Ellipse, using a tied string as a loop & two pins (tacks) on a board, at the age of 14. His Dad accompanied him for his presentation of this method, before the Royal Society. His 'Maxwell's statistics' is next, which is complex for the common man & is the basis for Planck Radiation Law. His third & most far-reaching was the weaving together of all theories on Electricity & Magnetism in a set of four laws, called 'Maxwell's Equations', that graduate students struggle hard to learn & love to forget when they move away from 'Electromagnetics'. Discovery of Radio was made possible due to this. Nothing in the modern world is possible without the four laws. His discoveries can't be understood by the common man, as they do with Newton's & Einstein's discoveries. One needs to know Mathematics to see what he did. Hence, JC Maxwell is not so well-known. Einstein expressed his debt of gratitude to him, for the quad of Maxwell Equations. Another worth remembering is, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, a French mathematician and physicist. His theory (Fourier series) along with Maxwell Equations is the backbone for all Communications Engineering.

[@urmorph]

He got a Beatles' song, which is more than Einstein did.

[@inae4262]

Well the point is he should be.

[@doilyhead]

It's not like his equations haven't been printed on t shirts since t shirts with logos became a thing.

[@Sara3346]

@@urmorph which song? Should it be obvious just looking at the catalogue titles?

[@kaitlynoddie9649]

just how highly charles babbage thought of ada lovelace is so wholesome

[@MegaBrokenstar]

Imagine if Ada Lovelace had lived long enough to ensure the machine was built and develop complex applications for it. We could have had modern electronic computers essentially since the invention of the vacuum tube.

[@netgnostic1627]

Charles Babbage gets a bunch of recognition, but he also deserves much more. He essentially invented RSA encryption, but control of this knowledge was grabbed by the military, so he couldn't patent anything. Many decades later, the RSA guys came along and patented them. I read that Babbage's descendents have been trying to get recognition for him.

[@nycrsny3406]

That's messed up, hope they get recognition for him.

[@lindsaymitchell6760]

I hope they get around to Émilie du Châtelet. She was an 18th century French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. She translated Newton's Principia into French (and it's still standard translation for French) which helped Newton's ideas get widely accepted. She was an advocate for kinetic energy, especially energy as a transferable currency between different systems, predicted infrared radiation in 1737 (over sixty years before it was discovered) and developed financial derivatives after she was cheated out of a huge sum of money at a card game. And Châtelet was philosopher, advocate for women's education, influence in Denis Diderot's encyclopedia and was the lover of Voltaire. Also, Frederick the Great was fanboy and introduced her to Leibniz. And unfortunately, Châtelet died of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 42 after giving birth to her last child (who would also die twenty months later). Go check her out, she's really cool

[@doornumb]

Ooo that's a lot of cool

[@g.3521]

Emily Noether is EXTREMELY underrated. Her theorems basically describe the entire basis of physics in such a simplistic way. Describing conserved quantities generated by the symmetries of the universe.

[@mommar4858]

20 years ago when I took bio I undergrad, our professor took a nice chunk of time with us on the history of Rosalind and the details of her work. ✌️

[@alysdexia]

not nice < niais < nescius := not-skilled but you are

[@vivenomada]

My grandmother worked as a nurse when it wasn't known that radiation is dangerous. She worked in the x-ray rooms without protection and died with cancer. She sued the hospital for compensation but sadly the case wasn't decided on her favor.

[@johnhannon192]

As a 35 year old dying with stage 4 lung cancer it's upsetting that so many amazing minds were snuffed out by the same general disease.

[@martinduran9523]

Hey. There's a clinic in the US called the Burzynski health clinic, that offers antineoplaston therapy to kill cancer. You could try going there to get help.

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

I’m so sorry for u but I’ll see u soon unfortunately

[@acwhit1593]

I was struck by how many women scientists died of cancer at a young age!

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

@@acwhit1593 they gave their life's all the hose before us u gotta sometimes put ur toe in the water to feel how cold it is most didn't know that one dip would kill them

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

Brother I just found out my father died from a truck hitting him while walking same killed my brother now my father n did me in at 32 but the brought me back at age 32 biblical n my dad who raised me since two never met my biological father but my dad died in a car wreck wen I was 6 months shy of 15 yrs old but it seems like Henry Ford killed my family in USA n biological father in France was hit he made it to Spain the Lisbon n died in a house after leaving a hospice wheelchair bound n as an ex could of been pro skateboarder n bjj black belt boxer can't keep still type of person n so was he a wheelchair was like death I'm just trying to get over a torn knee saving up for surgery to pay my insurance but many ppl I loved dies cancer beautiful Stephanie 28 yrs old I brought her to put her mom's ashes out into Atlantic ocean n then 3 yrs later she was there the same best mates Steve Luz n Richie both cancer n cancer n aids n Paul aids my mom cancer my uncle brain tumor taken out now back wtf if we could study the brain while ppl are alive cuz only can study brain on dead body n alive with MRI n x-rays n pills n pulses but no experiments while alive but we can sign up to die in war if the world for one year studied brain we might make brake throughs n be smart enough to put our money to put to cure cancer maybe mix tech with our bio idk I'm not relavant

[@elmohead]

Ada Lovelace: "One day computers can write music!!!" What she meant >>> Chopin and Liszt. What actually happened >>> Dubstep.

[@elmohead]

I agree wholeheartedly. But If I say Sibelius I doubt my comment would make sense to non-musical people ("Sibelius? Who's that?" kinda comment). Maybe SciShow should do a top 5 undervalued composers?

[@ΩρεΝατο]

@@existenceisillusion6528 i see that this comment is a bit old, hope you are feeling better

[@scuevas1]

beethoven was the dubstep head of his time

[@thecoolaxolotlnova8523]

Believe it or not but interests in people change over time

[@walterbushell7029]

Well at least she didn't include J S Bach or Joe Haydn in computer written music.

[@HKittenm]

The second I saw this video I immediately thought of Rosalind Franklin: in my Bio class its always a bonus question and a subject of anger, as my bio teacher had his PhD in genetics

[@mischarowe]

"a subject of anger" I hope you mean your bio teacher was angry FOR Rosalind.

[@jerodriguez74]

@@mischarowe ofc, otherwise why even mention her? 😊 Every decent smart person who studies genetics, or biology in general, feels for the injustice done to her.

[@francoislacombe9071]

Being an obscure scientist appears to cause cancer.

[@allanrichardson1468]

Francois Lacombe No, working with hazardous materials without taking precautions causes cancer, except when a cancer would have been inevitable regardless of one's occupation.The tragedy of such cases is when nobody knows about the hazards, or how to prevent them, until someone dies of them.

[@Wedelj]

How do we know that cancer doesn't cause obscure scientific achievement? Correlation does not equal causation, it only proves correlation.

[@allanrichardson1468]

Sunshine_Shooter In one sense it can. Scientists who die before completing what would have been a great discovery are less likely to get public acclaim for it. And a Nobel Prize, by definition, cannot be awarded to a dead person. And we do know that Marie Curie and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie both worked with radioactive elements and both died young of cancer from that exposure, but fortunately both received their Nobel honors before dying. Not sure what happened to Pierre though (maybe he told Marie to "stir the pot," since cooking was "woman's work." ;) Given the social attitudes of the time, Marie probably would not have been awarded a Nobel had she done the same research alone, and Irene, decades later, probably got some help from having famous Nobel laureate parents.

[@francoislacombe9071]

Allan Richardson Pierre Curie was killed in a traffic accident when a heavy horse-drawn cart ran him over and crushed his head, a month shy of his 47th birthday

[@allanrichardson1468]

Francois Lacombe So we'll never know whether he would have developed cancer or not. I was just kidding about gender role stereotypes there; I'm sure both of them spent their share of time tending the experiments. And of course, radioactivity was a brand new phenomenon then, and nobody knew about its health risks.

[@moisesvillanueva1980]

Do all great minds get cancer? Is sad that all these extraordinary woman never got the recognition they deserved while they were alive. At least now we know all the ways they better the world we all now live in. Hopefully videos like this help spread their legacies and make every human being be thankful, for all woman that not only gave us all life but the many that also single handedly shape our world. Love this video!

[@Chromia1]

Ada: "Ima gonna write a beautiful computer algorithm!" Menfolk of the 1800s: "That's nice dear, go take care of the kids." Ada: "They don't know how lucky they are that we don't have skynet.....yet."

[@AstridAbenaa]

😂

[@fivesix3868]

I assumed Rosalind Franklin was female by the fact that she was discredited being called 'emotional'.

[@vanessahayes6471]

This Was so wonderful. We owe so much. I cant believe how amazing Ada Lovelace was, and Henrietta Leavitt blows my mind ! These people were so awesome !!

[@kellbing]

It really makes me angry how women have been treated throughout history. Imagine how much further our scientific knowledge would be if they hadn't been denied so many opportunities.

[@shaneorgan5066]

Kelleen Louchart not to mention the churches negative influence

[@thecoolaxolotlnova8523]

@@shaneorgan5066 church's**

[@garethcooley1318]

@@thecoolaxolotlnova8523 churches' ?

[@thecoolaxolotlnova8523]

@@garethcooley1318 both work, depends whether you're talking about the church as an entity or churches as individual entities.

[@jordanh9668]

As sad as it seems, this is representative of most of how history worked for the vast majority of society. Both men and women alike.

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

Isaac Newton once said "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Einstein was asked by a journalist if he stood upon the shoulders of Newton. He replied "No - I stand upon the shoulders of James Clerk Maxwell" Maxwell died in the year when Einstein was born (1879).

[@Rebecca-fu7bx]

We recently had a student petition in my college against naming a building after James Watson (for obvious reasons) which was only happening because he bribed the college with some of the money from selling his Nobel prize 😥

[@aoife7658]

Rebecca O' S UCC by any chance?

[@Rebecca-fu7bx]

Aoife yup :)

[@kats9755]

"Her father was the poet Lord Byron-" I nearly spat my drink. Did NOT expect a connection between the First Computer Programmer and Lord Byron. That's fantastic. Both beautiful minds, one leaning more emotional and one leaning more logical. Cool historical connection 🤙

[@unlovableghost]

This video looks like so much hard work, but it's always great to get long SciShow videos. Very fun and informative, thank you guys.

[@pgm3]

The picture of Kings College shown at 10:42 is of Kings at Cambridge University, one of the 31 colleges of that institution's federal system. Kings College in London is a different institution altogether. London is 50 miles away, south of Cambridge.

[@splashofsparks]

I learned all about Wegener in my Honors bio class!! I'm glad he's getting the recognition he deserves.

[@superapple4ever]

It shouldn't matter that she's dead she still deserves the award and it can be still made and put in her honor.

[@terranovarubacha5473]

I think the must be living stipulation is because it comes with a cash award. It wouldn't cost them anything, though, to change things so they can recognize someone who died before they were offered the award. A second Nobel but without the prize

[@quiestinliteris]

​@@terranovarubacha5473 Precisely. A dead scientist is in no position to be pleased by receiving the award, but the award isn't just for the benefit of the one who receives it. The list of past recipients is a cultural record of the types of research considered valuable and the types of person who conducts that research.

[@gulllars4620]

Ada Lovelace also has a programming language named after her; Ada. And later languages have also taken inspiration / borrowed from it.

[@teleny2]

Actually, Mozart created a mechanical method of composing waltzes.

[@SpeedOfDarknesss]

Awesome video. Random side note: all these untimely deaths remind me of a great mathematician, Évariste Galois, who died super early from a literal duel.

[@drakesmith471]

It’s been a bit since I read the bit from the book I learned about him in. If I recall right, he was founder of abstract algebra or category theory. Whatever it is, if I didn’t get it right, please correct me. A good read featuring his work and those of others is “The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization”.

[@tw3229]

it's sad to look back and see so many brilliant women lack of opportunity. even sadder is that still happens.

[@theaizere]

fax machine 👆

[@laulaja-7186]

Noting also that the above are all from Europe, mostly the English speaking world. And they did have education, even if the final step to fame failed them. So they still represent a tiny privileged slice of humanity.

[@humanbeing6640]

The story of Rasalind Franklin makes me sooooo angry 😑😠😠😡

[@jrt818]

Ragebait perhaps.

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

I read The Double Helix and Watson came off as a bit of a jerk.

[@jrt818]

@zonescat Yes, she took an x-ray.

[@jeffmatson2046]

Im so glad they gave props to the third scientist of D.N.A. she help humans further in saving lives.

[@jacquelinepaddock7535]

When I was a fresher we had a basic computer module and the one make in our group decided as a man he should be in charge. His reasoning was that women didn't know about computers. From the back of the group a voice said "I have two words to answer that, all together girls! " As one we all said ADA LOVELACE! We were tasked with entering a Basic program into a Sinclair ZX80. Only two of us had handled one before. A working model of the analytical engine is I believe on display in the Science Museum in London.

[@techiedreyn3621]

thank you to these great minds. and thank you scishow for giving them appreciation they deserve.

[@Achill101]

Maxwell was indeed the founder of electromagnetic theory @11:32, but the observations you mention had been made already, especially by Michael Faraday who had made ingenious experiments, for example of how magnets influence electrical currents. Also the speed of the electromagnetic interaction had been measured before, by Weber, IIRC. That doesn't change that Maxwell's formulation of the equations of electromagnetism was the most influential contribution from physics to the 20. century.

[@scishowfan2.050]

2:17 lol i dont know maybe they "drifted"

[@dmknight08]

Omg thanks so much for getting Ada Lovelace in there!!!

[@cinskybuhsrandy5099]

Ok, but how is she undervalued? Everyone knows who she was, fricking language is named after her. I think it's Babbage who should be on this list.

[@JasonCliftJones]

10:41 - Mention King's College London, picture of King's College Cambridge. Different colleges :/

[@SCALLYWAG.1]

Tomato potato 😉

[@AimeeColeman]

@@SCALLYWAG.1 Different plants XD

[@davidknipe4113]

More precisely, the college chapel and the Senate House (which is part of Cambridge University but not part of any college).

[@homerthompson416]

Georg Cantor should be at least an honorable mention for his revolutionary work on infinite sets, counting, and set theory. His work was so widely dismissed but now anyone taking an undergrad analysis course will run across a lot of his ideas, some of which we couldn't have modern real analysis without.

[@marshacreary2442]

Great job compiling all of this information. It's unfortunate that we recognize contributions too late

[@pheart2381]

finally! Rosalind Franklin gets a mention!

[@jm5390]

You should do compilation videos for each of the planets in our solar system (one compilation per planet). The compilations can be all the discoveries we’ve learned of that particular planet & what scientists are still trying to learn.

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

It is true that Babbage designed the first mechanical computer, which he developed into the "Difference engine" - but his imagination rushed ahead of his manufacturing, and the difference engine was never completed by him (a small prototype was). Babbage was a cantankerous man, a poor workforce manager, and did not have the temperament to get on with his workers, and to see his project through to the end. His design was eventually used (in modern times) to build the difference engine for the London Science Museum, where it can be seen today. If Ada Lovelace had lived into the 1960's, when modern computing was starting its development, she would have been a software pioneer of excellence. She had so many ideas about the potential uses of computers. Babbage had only ever envisaged his difference engine being used for numerical calculations, but she foresaw it being used in the visual arts and in music. There is a programming language named in honour of Ada Lovelace - "Ada". I believe it is used primarily by such organisations as NASA. Although constructs are a bit different, it looks, on the face of it, a lot like C.

[@francesbernard2445]

A professor in chemistry I took a class from once was brilliant too. I hope he and his family got to stay here in Canada for the rest of their lives. I really liked hearing about all of those scientists mentioned here. 3 of them which stood out in my mind was Henrietta Swan Levit and Anny John Canon and most of all Ada Lovelace. Becaue my father Wilf always encouraged both his daughters including my sister Sharon too in having the right to follow their hearts desires when it comes to whatever career we wanted to go into. Being a stripper or hooker was not one of the careers which me or my sister Sharon wanted to go into or were encouraged to. Which my father was relieved to find out as we 2 daughters of his were leaving home after once several years prior in the summer once while I was a teenager wearing my bathing suit suggested to me that maybe I could make money posing for a photgraph IN MY BATHING SUIT. Which upset my mother considerably at the time. Because she was determined to see me become a registered nurse like what she always wanted to be too. Instead she became a professional driver that considered about maybe having to apply at BRINKS to make more money than while driving a school bus. I told her no.

[@francismausley7239]

Thanks. My appreciation to all scientists... "Happy are those who spend their days in gaining knowledge, in discovering the secrets of nature, and in penetrating the subtleties of pure truth!" ~ Baha'i Faith

[@jessicapinto3817]

When you become head of an entire department at 25: OK bloomer

[@chavezhurtado6483]

Jessica Pinto LMAO

[@vonzigle]

Thanks!

[@angelstevens2782]

SciShow , you covered them all even though I didn't know the particulars about Maxwell except his 4 Equations of Electromagnetism.

[@chimpanzee243]

Hey SciShow, it would be cool to see a behind the scenes video.

[@Krebzonide]

I'm surprised we didn't see Tesla on here but I guess he has become a lot more known now and more people already know that he was undervalued.

[@MrRoadster100]

This guy's an expert presenter: Deliberate, factual, and concise as well as fully clear and understandable to everyone. Good job!

[@DennyMapleSyrup]

You should make a series about undervalued scientists in specific fields, like computer science, chemistry, etc.

[@taramas5582]

Yeah, agree

[@lxcidtea3799]

The probably all died of cancer though.

[@shootgunMarvel]

- Bring back this scientific compilation pls pls... this was veygood 😍

[@CanadianOptionsTrader]

Hank gets younger and then rapidly ages several times in this video!

[@TheWadetube]

"The Enchantress of numbers" very fine. I wish some people spoke so eloquently as they did a mere 100 years ago. I miss the days of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle .

[@gedgilb]

The "Clerk" of James Clerk Maxwell is pronounced like "Clark".

[@willieclark2256]

as a Scot moving to Appalachia this video made me very happy

[@Chris-ut6eq]

Thank you for posting this!

[@stephencody6088]

Noticed a coomon theme here;early death. When the oldest is 58 it's scary.Hank jokes about it but imagine a world where they all lived into their 70's.

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

Nobel Prize winning scientist tend to live longer apparently.

[@thecoolaxolotlnova8523]

Its because they have to work harder and harder work means more radioactive materials

[@aidalovesmcfly]

This compilation was fantastic - really puts a whole new meaning to pursuing truth, excellence, and your passions. Bad-assery at its finest and noblest.

[@beardymonger]

Poincare! Known to be the last _math_ universalists, he was nonetheless a great _physicist_. Without going into relativity dispute, he had special relativity (arguably) worked out BEFORE 1905! One example: in a book he published there's a description of clock synchronization and time dilation. He is a true giant of Newton's stature.

[@alexandreelnahry8750]

beardymonger einstein

[@lordofelectrons4513]

Human history is littered with unsung heroes. Contributions large and small to the trove of knowledge. Many known to us many more lost to history. From the first stone tool to the Laser and beyond. Be they male or female I salute them all.

[@Netro1992]

>Ada Lovelace To this day no one has been able to tell me how does a man design a machine and not know how to use it.

[@SpirosAliprantis]

Netro1992 he maybe did it by accident...

[@stephencody6088]

He knew how to use it,punch cards.

[@Koozomec]

@@stephencody6088 punch cards are storage devices used before computers era (ie music rolls).

[@qualicumwilson5168]

@@Koozomec l really must be old then. At U.Vic, my first computer programs were wrote on punch cards. And then your data went in on other punch cards. I believe the computer was an IBM360 and the maximum ram was 64K

[@Sara3346]

@@Koozomec I thought that they were used with early computers as well though during save late 40s early 1950s ?

[@DannyBeans]

I have an old Life book on Geology that brings up the idea of plate tectonics, but goes on to say it probably isn't correct. There are also a couple old Stephen Jay Gould essays from the '70s that say something like "if this theory is true, and it's looking more and more like it is . . . ." It kind of blows my mind that general acceptance of this idea that's been around my entire life is really only barely older than me.

[@Sara3346]

Gosh I wish we had also had time to talk about Rosalind Franklin's work on viruses but I do get that this is a compilation of short videos still in the short time frame.

[@SCALLYWAG.1]

I was waiting for u to say babbage was credited with lovelace's work because how rampant sexism was, but when u said he called lovelace the enchantress of numbers it took me back with a tear in my eye.

[@iloveplasticbottles]

I imagine that if ovarian cancer didn't take Rosalind, then the sheer frustration of having others take credit for your work would have.

[@terranovarubacha5473]

And I expect cancer is pushed along by stress - like every other issue in the body

[@AimeeColeman]

James Clerk Maxwell didn't discover the Maxwell equations. They were already existing laws that he collected together, adjusted and put into comparable forms. They are Gauss's laws for Electric and Magnetic fields, Faraday's law of induction and Ampere's circuital law, which he corrected to show the relationship between electric and magnetic fields. This correction was a big deal, and putting all these equations together was a big deal, because it revealed an asymmetry that lead physicists to hunt for magnetic monopoles, which, if they exist, would make the equations look symmetrical. However, Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction had already shown a link between magnetic and electric fields, it was more that Maxwell pieced all this work together and looked at it critically to see if he could work out what what might be missing, and that's exactly what he did. (btw in the UK we pronounce 'Clerk' the same as 'Clark')

[@IsaacRM92]

if Rosalind Franklin is not here... I'm definitely going to be mad, we owe her the discovery of the double Helix of DNA, Watson and Crick were just thieves 😣😒

[@rbradhill]

always engaging and edifying, thanks for another great video :) I also find it really interesting to see how the video style has changed over the course of the snippets surveyed.

[@rbradhill]

Taric Alani thanks, made it myself xD

[@milesmamigonian4831]

I had forgotten how Hank used to talk. It's wonderful. For a wonderful example, (re)watch the series on the Four Fundamental Forces of Physics.

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

Here is an example of someone who looked at another's work, deduced the likelyhood of it as erroneous results; but did not ridicule the other party: Alessandro Volta versus Luigi Galvani. Galvani had wrong conclusions on electric signals in a nerve system of an animal; but learning happens best when fear of being mocked is not at the top of ones mind. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galvani#Galvani_vs._Volta

[@PaulvanEgmond]

After viewing this excellent episode, I'm left with the notion that one better steers clear of science if one doesn't want to die from cancer

[@2MeterLP]

Past Hank Green sounds stoned.

[@Babarudra]

he was sort of a mix of Maxwell Smart and William Shatner and Carl Sagan.

[@oldcowbb]

he still is

[@ValseInstrumentalist]

Babarudra Holy crap, Maxwell Smart, that's so on point.

[@vitor5636]

The amount of amazing woman underestimated and brilliant scientist dying from cancer so young really upsets me :(

[@peurmartis641]

WAIT SO ALL OF THEM DIED OF CANCER? thats weird and makes me wonder whether theres a correlation here

[@undressmoreorless]

correlation doesn't imply causation (?

[@teevee5731]

Not the guy who walked out into the blizzard :p

[@natevonhartleben2737]

for all you know! that would suck xD out in a blizzard and the cancer you didn't know you had kicks in, you freeze, and people assume you froze to death before anyone even knew you had it. I mean, no way of confirming with 100% certainty that it was the blizzard alone that killed him!

[@roguedogx]

Peur Martis there's correlation, but it's unlikely that there's causation.

[@marpfel]

Well... he is still there... Just dig him up, defreeze him, heal his cancer and tell him he was right. :D

[@CajunWolffe]

The last one, Ada Lovelace, brought to mind a great read. There is a book classified as being in the "cyberpunk" genre called "The Difference Engine," and it is co-written by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling; think Neuromancer and Mirror Shades, respectively, as two of their significant works. It's a "what if" tale set in 1850s London, and Babbage's steam-powered Difference Engine had become a reality. Programmers are called clackers, and Ada, Lord Byron (her father), and Charles Babbage play their parts with historical accuracy sown with poetic licenses to keep things interesting.

[@Master_Therion]

"Great Minds Compilation" could also be the name of an All-You-Can-Eat restaurant for zombies.

[@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai]

Oh no you don't. Not again.

[@Drex2580]

Master Therion you are eveywhere

[@margodavies6606]

​ ​ no, go to your room

[@esmereldagonzales9613]

Master Therion +

[@harryman01]

Maxwell's work in electromagnetism was inspired and besed on Michael Faraday's work

[@krinord]

08:30 I guessed it had to be Nohr, Maxwell, Schrodinger or Planck

[@9Ballr]

9:01 That's amazing that Maxwell was able to publish his first academic paper using just a piece of twine.

[@docthorium1562]

How on earth is James Clerk Maxwell undervalued?

[@nahidhkurdi6740]

He is not. Only in the minds of media-blinded people who think that Einstein was the only physicist of merit in history.

[@PennyDreadful1]

@@nahidhkurdi6740 If you're a physicist or knowledgeable in the history of science he is one of the big ones. Most people are not.

[@Krokoklemmee]

undervalued as in not a lot of people know him

[@Genzafel]

If you go to the street and ask a ramdom stranger if he/she ever heard of James Maxwell, most probably the answer will be "No", ask about Newton or Einstein and chances are they had at least heard the name. By the sheer amount of contributions of Maxwell he should be more universally know, ergo the "undervalued" statement remains (sadly) true

[@thisisjeopardy9024]

Not only was this super interesting, but these videos are my go to when I’m having a panic attack, such as right nowXD. Thanks for being awesome

[@Hannah_Em]

Just think... the women on this list are just some of the fortunate few who managed to slip through the cracks and far enough to actually share their brilliance with science; they're emblematic of millions of minds who society has thrown away for being the wrong gender, race, religion, social class, or any number of ways in which they didn't measure up to a narrow-minded view of what an intellectual authority figure should look like. Hopefully we can do better in the future

[@LA_Viking]

I don’t know the narrator’s name but by far…by orders of magnitude that is…he is the best host of SciShow. Knowledgeable, dynamic, and funny, his narrative style almost forces one to take an interest in the subject matter. The rest of them….well, I rarely make it through the entire video.

[@terranovarubacha5473]

His first name is Hank

[@UDAYKUMAR-jd8xr]

Lisa meitner is missing!!! She was the first to realize that einsteins formula E=mc^2 works along with this she was groundbreaking scientist but was underrated due to gender and religion

[@unmotivated_might]

Lisa Meitner isn't underrated. The only unjust thing that happened to her was that she wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, while Otto Hahn gained an exclusive award for it.

[@LEDewey_MD]

BUT!! She did get the final and greatest honor. a whole ELEMENT was named after her: Meitnerium, element #109!

[@RandomPlayIist]

@@unmotivated_might "Lisa Meitner isn't underrated. The only unjust thing that happened to her was that she wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry" How is that not underrated?

[@Koozomec]

Stops conspiracy theories about gender pls.

[@kaitlynoddie9649]

@@Koozomec its not a conspiracy theory if its the truth tho

[@myfamiliar795]

I figured he was going to mention Ignaz Semmelweis who discovered that hand washing prevented hospital infections but was laughed at because germs hadn't been discovered yet.

[@parallel4]

Breaking news: cause of cancer discovered! Making a groundbreaking, underrated discovery causes cancer! Make revolutionary scientific breakthroughs safely, guys.

[@andrebenites9919]

I like Mendeleev, the guy that invented the Periodic table and predicted a lot of elements that weren't discovered by that time

[@Jhonjackdiab]

you should do one about Boltzmann he was also a non-believed genius.

[@corneliuswulpuswulpus4078]

Whoa, Alfred Wegner isn't underrated, we do and entire term on him and his work during compulsory eduction in biology and chemistry in the UK. Also, he 'wasn't' ahead of his time as he just guessed he had not proof to back his hypothesis and wasn't a formal geologist in the field.

[@shaaaairuuu]

How come they forget Sir J.C. Bose who discovered that plants have life and invented radio signal? He never got credit for discovering the particle named Boson (yes, from his surname Bose) but many scientists working on Boson got the Nobel Prize!

[@shaaaairuuu]

***** More Specifically he was a Bengali. I feel like Bengali people had very less recognition as scientists maybe that's why he never really got the attention he deserved. :/

[@shaaaairuuu]

***** Sigh whatever, it was still very unfair.

[@rohannalawade3227]

Lol you Jagdish Chandra Bose did the plant feel emotions and radio communication stuff. Satyendra Nath Bose was responsible for Bose Einstein Condensate, Boson and others. They are two different people.

[@andie2809]

I'm sorry but dead or alive I think the Franklin's and Leavit's of science still deserve a posthumous Nobel Prize! Maybe not the money portions (however it could go to a scholarship fund for women in science) but their work changed the way we do science today and they deserve it.

[@terranovarubacha5473]

Agree!

[@joegirdwood7618]

honourable mention to Alan Turing?

[@jimbrogan9835]

Not getting credit because your discoveries are not accepted as valid in your time is sad. Not getting credit because your a woman and/or your male colleagues take credit for your discoveries is outrageous! Thank you for a wonderful walk through history.

[@owl2065]

You, know in the original article that was published in Nature, Rosalind franklin was given credit

[@wierdalien1]

Nikochan14 yeah so? if she wasnt first or last author it doesnt matter.

[@eliasabdul-rahman4692]

I think that we owe to honour Clara Immerwahr because she was one of the first to fight for science to be something that helps humanity instead of harming it by using it for war and other horrible things.

[@peterfireflylund]

Haber contributed the Haber-Bosch process, which gave us enough fertilizer to feed billions and basically meant the end of starvation. What did Immerwahr do, except wring her hands, fall into depressions, and shoot herself with Haber's gun?