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I'll never understand why Americans automatically assume Alexander Graham Bell was American, no more than they assume John Logie Baird, who invented the television wasn't American either. Do they teach that all these inventors has to be American?
Because so many move to the largest unified market to market their inventions, some end up thinking these people were born there.
@@FilipWinter American education system at it's best
@@FilipWinter The US was not the 'largest unified market', when many of these inventions and discoveries were made, so this is not the answer.
They also credit Edison with inventing the lightbulb and also see the automobile as an American invention, when in reality it was a German invention. They also see the computer as an American invention, even though the first programmable computer was a British invention, the first electronic programmable computer was a British invention and the theoretical groundwork for modern computing was laid down by Turing, hence his title as the Father of Modern Computing.
And they won both world wars on their own didn’t you know that.
You got a like for the disappointed face of Bell being British. Gold!
Lots in the US think Hawking was Amerocan due to hes choice of an American accent on hes voice computer ..he had a great sense of humor 😅
I don't think it was a choice at the beginning but as he had gotten used to it, he kept it, even though he'd been offered a change to a British accented version.
Karl pilkington too.
That's the American level of intelligence 😂
@@101steel4 I never thought it was yank e As I could understand every word
Humour*
English is English. Not American
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 you are correct there’s no such thing as American language is there but knowing the yanks they will say they invented it sooner or later
Alan Turing wrote a paper in the early 1930's when he was at Oxford titled "On computable numbers" where he theorised a machine which we now call a computer. However, the man who designed and built what is considered the world's first electronic computer was Tommy Flowers, an engineer who worked for the GPO, now BT, on using valves in automated telephone exchanges.
Tommy Flowers should be given more recognition. Not only did he put that computer together, but he paid for it himself and was never reimbursed. He made a massive difference to the war effort.
Also others at Bletchley who cracked Lorenze / Tunny, used by the German high command and much harder to break than Enigma.
Most of the lack of recognition is because of the Official Secrets Act.
I love the fact that there are some people in the US, such as yourself, actively trying to fight the Dunning-Kruger effect. Hats off to you Sir and great reaction
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor. He was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Later, he became a naturalized citizen of both Canada and the United States, having moved to North America in the 1870s.
@MichaelRogers-et8dqBell remained a British subject all his life. Dual nationality was possible in the USA.
Us Brits invented almost everything, including America. Get used to it.
Hmmm, I'm British, but even I know that the French and the Spanish had a hand in it too. And, if it comes to that, the native Americans would likely be saying that they invented it, and that it was we (collectively with the French and Spanish) who ****ed it all up and made it what it is today!
It was the Scots who invented most things
The British invented "Jingoism" ... we heard it in spades during the Brexit misinformation campaign.
Oh.....and they also invented Football-Hooliganism.
And that's bullshit....
British Romans ok nimrod.
How Freeman Dyson, Ada Lovelace, Frank Whittle isn't on this list I'll never know....but to be fair we have sooooooo many to choose from any top 10 would will be an injustice :)
Agreed. + James Clerk Maxwell
@@peterrauth118 Maxwell was my number one choice for scientist missing from this list, with Frank Whittle second.
Sir Alec Jeffreys. The impact his DNA discoveries have had on crime solving and family issues is staggering.
Also Babbage, Rutherford and Chadwick could also have been mentioned. PS I'd swap Newton with Darwin.
@@mikefraser4513 Newton puts every other scientist who has ever lived in the shade. His influence on science and civilisation is completely incalculable. Even Einstein was in total awe of Newton: "No other single human being has contributed so much to civilisation"...Einstein, writing about Newton.
P.S When Charles Darwin was asked about the possibility of a God he replied: "This question is probably beyond the mind of Man, like a dog or a cat trying to understand the mathematics of Sir Issac Newton."
Marie Curie were born in Poland but lived in France.
Quote of the day "Ooh! Ah! Euh! Radar?" Marie Curie was Polish by birth, but spent much of her life in France. And yes, mouldy bread and (I think) mouldy yoghourt were used to treat wounds before anyone knew why they worked. It was Fleming who isolated the cause. There are plenty of others who didn't make the list despite being brilliant: Faraday, Hooke, Hoyle, Trevithick, Brunel, Priestley, Babbage, Lovelace, Anning, Dalton, Owen... For an evolution theory that was forerunner of Darwin's and the basis for much of his work, look up Jean Baptiste Lamarcke.
Ada Lovelace, the second most interesting thing about her is that she was the illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron.
The telephone (Bell)
Television (Logie Baird)
The Computer (Babbage)
The worldwide web (Berners-Lee)
Our pleasure!
The boy mentioned RADAR. That was another Scot, Robert Watson-Watt.
Britain is a little country but our influence and great inventions goes far beyond our size, and still today we have ground breaking scientific knowledge!
Scottish 🏴✊
@@williammacdiarmid6395small county. That lives off the English
Yeah ik but I watched bk women on here she was raging about the riots saying the UK is dirty and us British people didn't have 2 brain sells to rub together 😅 and we haven't invented anything 😂 she so wrong
Just wait until the average Yank learns about John Logie Baird. That'll blow their minds.
@@GiantHaystack The Yanks think that the U.S. invented TV and argue about it. I met one in Italy and he denied that Baird invented TV.
Fun fact; Alexander Fleming had a son who was my GP as a child and very well respected.
Another fan fact. His grandson was a doctor at the surgery in Haverhill when I lived there
@@alanmahoney167 That one I knew, he was also GP to my cousin and her husband.
As bizarre as it sounds he also had a great nephew, also a Fleming, who had a scaffold company in New Zealand.
The doctor you mention was my Dad, so AF was my grandpa. I met a volunteer in the botanic garden of Wales who used to be a patient of Dads too.
@@sarahwhitlow5541 you had a great Dad and Grandpa
Te obvious omission is James Clark Maxwell, of whom Einstein said he "stood on the shoulders of". Discover of the laws of electromagnetism. Also Dirac, Faraday, Joule
Bessemer, Watt, Trevithick, Stevenson, Brunel, Darby, Tull, Halley, Wallace, Babbage, Lovelace... the list goes on and on and on.
Marie Curie was Polish but became, through marriage, a naturalised French woman.
I agree, surely Faraday and James Clark Maxwell should be among the top ten!
There's a blue plaques to Joule in Manchester. Apparently he was the son of a Salford Brewer.
Joule and Newton...loved each other🤣
My friend, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, therefore he was Scottish!! he was a Brit and we are very proud of him.
Okay, but:
He didn't invent the telephone
Proof
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone
He was born in my hometown.
If we're talking about impact then James Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday both belong on this list ahead of a few of these.
Without Maxwell we wouldn't have Einstein's theories of relativity. He also took the worlds first colour photograph!
@@MeFreeBee Absolutely. Max Planck was heavily influenced by Maxwell too when developing quantum theory.
Where he belongs on the list is subjective of course but personally, I'd have him just behind Darwin and Newton (who I'd put the opposite way around to this list).
Great scientists are greatly influenced by those who have gone before them. For example Newton by Keppler, Copernicus and Galileo.
@@howarddavies8937You forgot that Kepler entirely based his work on observations from Tycho Brahe. Brahe was an excellent astronomer and revolutionized astronomy, but wasn't strong at math. Kepler was a mathematician and worked from Brahe's observations.
@@howarddavies8937 Hence a certain Standing on the shoulders' of giants" quotation.
Robert Watson-Watt is credited with inventing radar.
I believe he was a meteorogist ( Pardon my spelling, weatherman)
On the runup to WW2 he was asked about a "death ray".
He knew it wasn't possible but he knew about strange happenings to a strong broadcast transmitter as something went past.
He (and his colleagues) said no death ray but we can give you something to detect them early
7:44 An important thing to note is that in Darwins day, 99.9999999999% of the planet hadn't visited another country. It wouldn't have entered peoples heads.
Not true, but it might easily have been 99% of people had never left their country except to fight in wars.
@@occamraiser That is some hardcore nitpicking there mate! 🤭
You don't need to explain what the numbers after the decimal point mean, although I know you're desperate to. We all know.
Charles Darwin died in the 1880's. How many world wars occurred prior to that mobilising millions of troops?
I exaggerated to make a point. You contested it purely based on mathematics without really thinking about the point in time that Darwins voyage occurred. My exaggerated calculation is probably closer to the truth than yours.
Connor you should look into alan turing he also broke the enigma code and he wasn't treated right by uk all because he was gay.... i always remember at school sir issac newton told us why a apple falls down from the sky and not up.
He wasn't treated well by the UK's government, not it's people; a later UK Government made a formal apology to Turing's family for this.
And anti-gay laws were common back then, for example: In the US, during the 1950s, McCarthyism resulted in state and nationwide witch hunts of male “homosexuals” and it was not until 2003 that US Supreme Court made it fully legal.
The Polish military intelligence department who actually did the groundwork breaking Enigma might disagree with you.
@@occamraiser actually the Enigma code was broken through the collaboration of the French secret service, the Polish Cipher Bureau, and the British government cryptological establishment, Bletchley Park. Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman designed a machine called the Bombe machine which used electric circuits to solve an Enigma encoded message. Yw
It is very rare for a scientific discovery to be the result of the work of a single individual. The credit usually goes to the first person to publish or patent their work.
Marie Chris was Polish born Maria Salomea Sklodowaska-Curie and she was a naturalized French scientist. Maggots are used in medicine, mostly in wounds. They are tiny initially and put in the wound where they are bandaged over and left for a few days and they clean the rotten flesh , skin and scabs by eating it. They are much bigger when no longer needed. Fleming discovered Penicillin after leaving bread on a plate and studied what was happening with the mould. I hope you were not eating if you read this😊✌
Fleming was married to a Greek woman: it was known in Greece at that time bread mould had curative powers. My Greek ex's father was aware of this & knew the wife. I do not know if he knew Fleming.
As regards to Fleming. Discovered is the key word here... there are notable others as side from Fleming that have gotten lost in history.
Fleming discovered the effect of penicillin, but he didn't develop it into a useful antibiotic, in fact it remained nothing more than a laboratory curiosity for years.
What made the difference was the work of Howard Florey (a brilliant chemist), Ernst Chain and colleagues at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. It was they that produced, at great effort, the first batch of penicillin. It was they that turned penicillin into a practical pharmaceutical and treated the very first patients.
The Nobel prize for the invention of penicillin as an antibiotic was shared by three people:
Alexander Fleming (who discovered it), Howard Florey (who did the clinical trials and so much work on producing it as an antibiotic) and Ernst Chain who helped Florey.
Also, another unsung hero was Norman Heatley who developed the back-extraction technique for efficiently purifying penicillin so it could be produced in bulk.
Fleming gets all the praise, but without all these other people, well... it would've just be something "interesting".
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The Podbielniak centrifugal liquid-liquid extractor was also important in efficiently extracting penicillin from fermenter broth. You get big losses of penicillin if you don't do the extraction very quickly, and the intensified, centrifugal extractor is very good at fast extraction. (Although Podbielniak was American).
John Logie Baird invented the TV
Scottish
@@philipwelsh1862 aye I ken that
I went to an exhibition about the invention and development of TV, decades ago in Berlin, a number of Germans and Americans were credited, but he wasn't mentioned. And my German host hadn't even heard of him.
@@anthonyferris8912 that is potty. What’s wrong with people. They live in a world of lies
@@anthonyferris8912 don’t forget they won the world wars on their own their bloody marvelous the yanks Never lost a a war as well. What would we do without the pratts
The reason for building the collider was to find evidence of the theorised Higgs' Boson particle. That evidence was found and so Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
MANY of these theorised particles have not been evidenced to that point and are still placeholders for something that might be.
It was about finding explaining mass particles for gravity, right?
The point about some of these particles is that in physics they may not actually find the particle but they can observe and measure the effect that the particle has.
Currie, Polish, married Belgium I think. Watson & Crick tried to obscure Franklin work.
You forgot who Turing was. Didn't you mention the movie about him in an earlier video ?
Bell is a complicated case. He left Britain aged 23, but that was for Canada and his home was there when he made his invention. He was moving between his home and Boston, and it was there that he demonstrated it. He did eventually become a US citizen.
Not really complicated, he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
marie currie discovered radium and polonium i think
"Curie" - Polish
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie - born in Warszawa (Warsaw) - naturalised French - married to Pierre Curie from Paris.
The LHC was to look for lots of things The Higgs boson was postulated as having to be to fit with existing models of atoms. It was discovered to be true during a LHC experiment
Magots and Leeches are actually still used sometimes. They are medical grade.
Hey i just found out that Thomas J Crapper is from my town ....and i kind of owe him a lot of thinking time 😂
The World's first 'programmer' was an English woman named Ada Lovelace in the 19th Century. She essentially formulated the first algorithm based on mathematics about a Century before the first computers were invented.
Im sure she was Lord Byrons daughter.
Marie Curie (1867 to 1934) was Polish by birth but she married French man Pierre Curie
What did Marie Curie win a Nobel Prize for?
radiation phenomena
In 1903, Curie won the Nobel Prize in PHYSICS for her research of radiation phenomena.
She was also the first woman in France to attain a PhD in Physics, and the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne.
In 1911, she won a second Nobel Prize in CHEMISTRY for the discovery of polonium and radium.
I always feel slightly aggrieved when Michael Faraday gets no mention; such is life!
Marie Curie was Polish by birth and lived most of her life in France. Her husband Pierre was French hence the French surname. A brilliant couple.
Evolution had been proposed before Darwin. What Darwin discovered was a theory to explain a mechanism by which evolution could take place: evolution by *natural selection* .
Spot on. The fact that animals and plants do change had been observed well before Darwin. But he methodically systematised his vast findings, and then developed the theoretical framework of evolution by natural selection. A true giant.
And Darwin was wrong.
DNA proves intelligent design.
@janhanchenmichelsen2627 Actually that's a misconception.
Plants and animals change within their family.
Dogs have always been dogs and cats have always been cats.
Worms didn't evolve into dogs or anything else.
Natural selection simply keeps the species strong.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418It does nothing of the sort.
There is nothing intelligent about the route taken by the recurrent laryngial nerve in the neck of the giraffe which is a direct result, lime ours, of its evolution from smaller animals. Even without DNA backing up the fact of evolution (as does what we know about bacteria and viruses from actual observation), the study of animal and human physiology provides enough evidence to debunk "intelligent design" as the level of intelligence we would expect from an omniscient creator is not present.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418Their "family"? What is this "family"? Define it.
Are wolves and dogs in the same family? Do you deny that dogs are the descendants of wolves?
Why are rabbits in the northern parts of North America unable to breed with those in Florida?
What is a "cat"? Are lions, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, pumas, mountain lions and lynxes cats? Are they in the same family? Tigers and lions can sometimes interbreed so are they in the same family? Rabbits at the extremes of North America cannot so are they in the same family?
Are donkeys and horses in tge same "family".
Extrapolate back in the eons of time which have elapsed since the earth was formed from a cloud of gas 4.5 billion years ago and you can see how such changes have been going on constantly from a common beginning.
As someone convinced by evolution of all lifeforms from common ancestors (regardless of mechanism), I *can* define "family". All living things are one family.
Marie Curie was Polish
You are right
She invented radium used in cancer treatments.
@@janolaful*discovered radium.
And sadly died from the substance which she discovered and worked with...(I think ?) 😢
@@brigidsingleton1596 yup! Her note books are still kept under lock and key, as they’re radioactive!
I would have included James Clerk Maxwell.
Also research of a nuclear weapon also started in the Uk Leo Szilard was waiting to cross the road near Russell Square in London when the idea came to him. It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 135,000 people.
The path from Szilard’s idea to its deadly realisation is one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of science and technology. It features an extraordinary cast of characters, many of them refugees from Fascism who were morally opposed to the bomb but driven by the dreadful prospect of Nazi Germany getting there first.
Szilard himself was a Hungarian-born Jew who had fled Germany for the UK two months after Adolf Hitler became chancellor. He arrived in a country that was then at the forefront of nuclear physics. James Chadwick had just discovered the neutron and Cambridge physicists soon “split the atom”. They broke a lithium nucleus in two by bombarding it with protons, verifying Albert Einstein’s insight that mass and energy were one and the same, as expressed by the equation E = mc2.
Szilard’s eureka moment was based on this groundbreaking experiment. He reasoned that if you could find an atom that was split by neutrons and in the process emitted two or more neutrons, then a mass of this element would emit vast amounts of energy in a self-sustaining chain reaction.
The comment, "Half the scientists I think are American turn out to be British", says it all. A Japanese study in the late 20th century estimated that more than 50% of the science and technology that underpins the modern world originated in Britain.
That's why hindsight is 20/20
You're obviously a visionary.
You’re forgiven for thinking Alexander Graham Bell was American, after all your public telephone system was called The Bell System, I also believe he emigrated to the US.
Its like building the periodic table. They had to find fits an understand before they could understand so its simply a modern version
Tbh, Newton should be number 1. There are also some notable omissions, sucher as Jenner (invented vaccines), Rutherford (Lord Kelvin), Boyle, Harvey, Baird, Swan, Maxwell etc. Maxwell is a very surprising omission.
Rutherford was a New Zealander. The Bohr/Rutherford theory of the atom. Bohr was Danish.
I think that any list like this, to a certain point, has be some what subjective. As the UK as whole has produced many great scientists it depends on who you've read about and know something of!
Totally agree. Even if he had only mathematically explained Gravity he would go down as one of the greatest scientists ever. But when you take into account his ground breaking discovories in every subject he explored. Optics. Mathematics etc it's mindblowing
Totally agree. The thing about these lists is for almost all the discoveries and investions if "this person" had not got there first then "someone else" would have gotten there within a few years. Newton was decades ahead of his peers and Maxwell is a huge omission, numbers 1 and 2 on my list.
Yes, I would definitely have Maxwell and Faraday on the list, and drop Stephen Hawking whose work is all theoretical and, in future, will prove largely wrong, I think. As we have inventors as well as scientists we should include James Watt, because the steam engine is most important invention enabling the modern world.
Yes, you are right.
Do a few more lists of inventors from other countries - Canada is right next door and you’d be surprised!
FYI- Alexander Graham Bell has a Star on the Walk of Fame in Toronto
There is a movie about Alan Turing called the imitation game
Maria Sklodowska-Curie, to give her full name, was Polish. She married Pierre Curie and was naturalised French. She was both physicist and chemist. She discovered radium and polonium (named after Poland) She is the first woman to win Nobel prize, the first person to win Nobel prize TWICE and the ONLY person to win Nobel prize in TWO fields. She shared her first Nobel prize with her husband, which makes them the first married couple to win Nobel prize. Her daughter Irene also won Nobel prize in chemistry (with her husband - Frederic Joliot). Her second daughter was a journalist and a pianist. She also worked in UNICEF. She died in 2007, being nearly 103.
Maybe you were thinking of Edison who was a prolific American inventor - The radar magnetron was developed just up the coast from where I live by Sir Robert Watson-Watt
Edison was half Dutch and half British, i think Scottish
@@guyluck9253 And he didn't invent the light bulb either, that was a scientist from Sunderland called Joseph Swann
Alexander Flemming is from a little Scottish village called Darvel, East Ayrshire l. I lived there for 27 years.
My dog once pee'd on the gate post that leads to Flemming's childhood farm.
I tried to teach my dog about Flemming's contribution to science. But, he wasn't interested in the slightest. At the time, he was only 2 years old.
It wasn't until he was 10 years old and cut his foot. A visit to the vet resulted in him needing antibiotics. It was then that he learned how important Flemming was to his recovery.
As a mark of respect. My dog returned to the same gate post and again pee'd on it. This time, he pee'd with respect rather than disrespect
😁
One thing to note about Flemming, is that discovery of penicillin or its potential effects is the key word here... there are notable others as side from Fleming that have gotten lost in history.
Fleming discovered the effect of penicillin, but he didn't develop it into a useful antibiotic, in fact it remained nothing more than a laboratory curiosity for years.
What made the difference was the work of Howard Florey (a brilliant chemist), Ernst Chain and colleagues at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. It was they that produced, at great effort, the first batch of penicillin. It was they that turned penicillin into a practical pharmaceutical and treated the very first patients.
The Nobel prize for the invention of penicillin as an antibiotic was shared by three people:
Alexander Fleming (who discovered it), Howard Florey (who did the clinical trials and so much work on producing it as an antibiotic) and Ernst Chain who helped Florey.
Also, another unsung hero was Norman Heatley who developed the back-extraction technique for efficiently purifying penicillin so it could be produced in bulk.
Fleming gets all the praise, but without all these other people, well... it would've just be something "interesting". Not taking anything away from him, just making a point that others made brilliant contributions who are by and large forgotten.
You can visit Newton's house and stand by the tree - and in the room where he determined the spectrum could not be further divided. Well worth a visit, so strange to be stood where he was.
There is a great Bell Museum in Beddeck, Canada, Nova Scotia. I’ve been there a couple of times, a bit of a Busman’s holiday, I used to work for British Telecom. It shows that Bell was Scottish and did a lot of work on high speed sea craft after he invented the telephone.
Madame Curie was born in Russian occupied Poland and at 24, moved to France with her sister, “to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work.”
Born in Poland, and moved to France (at the age of 24) to study in Paris.
Connor , A. G. Bell was born in Scotland, but moved with family to (Canada) America around age 33yrs old.
And unless any of us could say different , that it's his name on patent .
Other than that , I ain't debating , as like you said, you'd been lied to. And for many other reasons
Alexander Graham Bell was as you say born in Scotland but his family moved to Canada, not the US. Bell did move to the US to work later and was given the first US patent for the telephone and this is mainly why US Americans think he is also a US American. He did later get dual nationality with the US.
@@Thurgosh_OG right , so it's documented of ,where A.G.Bell was born and grew up.
Yet to take what's said from a trusted source or such .
That's just down to poor education systems .
Yet also people who don't fact check .
It's not exactly an excuse .
As for Patents ... it doesn't matter ,what country let a patent be put through.
More the person or persons name on said document.
And doing , historical and such factual checks.
This is why I don't debate this.
Because it is so weak kneed on the facts .
I'm saying less on this as ,it can get long and heated . I'd prefer to just live in ignorance.
P.s. I didn't say " U.S. " I said America ,but now corrected to Canada ,which is in North America.
He didn't invent the telephone
Proof
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone
I like his Whisky.
@@williammackenzie6115 pmsl 😂 😂
I'll drink to that ....
Stephen hawking was once asked if he would like a different voice and he rejected it saying no, nobody would recognise me😂
Hi Connor, you should watch "The Theory of Everything" an excellent film
The greatest invention of all time was by an American, who somehow managed to convince a nation of over 300mil people that their country was 'the greatest' and 'most free' and to achieve that, they just repeated things, dumbed down the education and uplifted religious influence and managed to distract a lot of people away from independent thinking and curiosity. Not a slight on our host who is clearly curious, but it is staggering how little American's know about 'general' things.
I'm continually staggered by the lack of knowledge and understand of Americans who cannot break out out of their own borders.
You've got to remember your computer was originally called the Turin machine after Alan Turin. Before it became known as a Computer. Imagine walking into a shop and asking for a Turin machine 😂 good video Connor pleased you still want to learn the truth, no matter ho painful it may be.
I saw this vid in my feed and i wondered "why haven't i seen any of your vids recommended lately" it turns out i had been unsubscribed, perhaps mention it in one of your videos.
Also the look on your face at Alexander Graham Bell was priceless lol.
To answer your question "Marie Curie was Polish-French".
Alexander graham Bell was born in Scotland. His family emigrated to Canada when he was a baby where he was raised . As an adult he moved to the USA later becoming a US citizen. All three claim him as one of there own. In The UK he is seen as British except in Scotland where he's only seen as Scots.
@@binaway I think I am correct in saying he became a U.S. citizen much later in life. At the time of his invention he was British. He was never Canadian.
@@valeriedavidson2785 All Canadians had British citizenship until 1948 when Canada establish Canadian citizenship. The same with Australia. Bell died in 1922
Marie Curie was Polish and later obtained French citizenship after her marriage to Pierre Curie.
Marie Curie was Polish but worked in France.
The Higgs Boson was theorised because the sub atomic particles that physicists knew about didn't explain mass. Higgs (and others) suggested that mass existed due to a univesal force and, if so, then there should be an associated boson.
This was in the early sixties. Since then theorists tried to predict what the boson would 'look' like; how it would behave; its energy and its decay products.
The LHC finally found exactly what most theories predicted in exactly the right place. Once the mathematicians had confirmed that the chance of this being pure coincidence was minute, the Higgs Boson was declared to be found.
Higgs got the Nobel Prize and a knighthood
As regards to Fleming. Discovered is the key word here... there are notable others as side from Fleming that have gotten lost in history.
Fleming discovered the effect of penicillin, but he didn't develop it into a useful antibiotic, in fact it remained nothing more than a laboratory curiosity for years.
What made the difference was the work of Howard Florey (a brilliant chemist), Ernst Chain and colleagues at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. It was they that produced, at great effort, the first batch of penicillin. It was they that turned penicillin into a practical pharmaceutical and treated the very first patients.
The Nobel prize for the invention of penicillin as an antibiotic was shared by three people:
Alexander Fleming (who discovered it), Howard Florey (who did the clinical trials and so much work on producing it as an antibiotic) and Ernst Chain who helped Florey.
Also, another unsung hero was Norman Heatley who developed the back-extraction technique for efficiently purifying penicillin so it could be produced in bulk.
Fleming gets all the praise, but without all these other people, well... it would've just been something "interesting".
The Higgs boson was the last piece of the Standard Model of particle physics to be found. The Standard Model is our best understanding of the very small, and its predictions include some of the most accurate ever made. Also, the most inaccurate one which is one reason we know it isn’t the whole story. The Higgs boson is a vital part of explaining how electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force emerge from the Standard Model and it was important to discover it so we could measure its properties. Lots of predictions about the origin and ultimate fate of the universe depend on the precise mass of the Higgs boson, which is one of the things the LHC was built to measure.
Speaking of electromagnetism, I wish they’d included James Clerk Maxwell in their list. Not only did he figure out how to unify the laws of electromagnetism and showed that light is an electromagnetic wave, he also was well on the way to developing Einsteinian relativity decades before Einstein at the time of his death. Einstein saw Maxwell as his greatest inspiration.
Don't forget Sir Charles Lyell, who gave us our modern understanding of geology and was the single greatest influence on Charles Darwin.
I am surprised why they left out James Clark-Maxwell who unified electricity and magnetism. The modern world would not exist without radio, television, computers . . .
Sir joseph swan, the inventor of the electric light should definately be on this list.
There's a comment about Baird inventing television which technically isn't 100% true, I'd be more persuaded by Philo Farnsworth having done more. Baird did invent colour television and also a couple of really weird things like, a razor made of glass for shaving, air cushioned shoes (Nike and Doc Marten should thank him), and weirdest of all, thermal socks........ But I think Berners-Lee should be number 2 on this list, Turing number 1. Turing is thought of as the main inventor of computers
I visited the Bell Homestead in Brantford, Ont. I believe his first phone call was from Brantford to nearby Paris, Ont. I'm from the UK, so obviously knew he was from Scotland
I’d of added Sir Roger Penrose to this list.
If an American is say driving and a song comes on the radio which they like, they think automatically that is an American band. Lmfao. Tells you all you need to know.
They kind of conveniently forget that the rest of the world exists.
Apple-mac" logo of an apple with a bite out of it is a homage to Alan Turing who commited suicide by biting a poisoned apple.
What 5 languages did Marie Curie speak?
She also spoke her native Polish. Since Poland was part of the Russian Empire when Marie lived there, she learned Russian in school. In addition to English, Polish, and Russian, she also spoke German and French.
The omission of James Clerk Maxwell is laughable.
The telephone was actually invented by Leonardo da Vinci, but it wouldn't work until Alexander Graham Bell invented the other one!
It comes as no surprise that Americans think most inventors are American , they think it’s the only country in the world . More education needed , especially after watching TH-cam vids of American college students being asked questions , give me strength FFS .
When my wife's auntie visited from Canada some years back, we took her to Downe Village in Kent (next to Biggin Hill) to Charles Darwins house.....she wouldn't go in to view the house because being a died in the wool Roman Candle, she violently disagreed with his work.....Silly old Bat that she was!
At least she didn't go off and burn the house down.
Marie Curie's maiden name was Maria Sklodowska - she was Polish 🙂🇵🇱 and was married to a Frenchman called Pierre Curie (unsurprisingly 😂)
Re the Hiiggs. Quantum theories (before Higgs) could not explain why particles have mass. According to QM, particles should all be massless and travel at lightspeed, just like photons.
Higgs proposed a new field that could provide a mechanism for the observed masses but we needed some proof that the new Higgs field actually existed. All QM fields can vibrate and those vibrations can be observed experimentally as particles (bosons). So the hunt began for the Higg's boson.
Now we have a theory for why particles such as the electron have a mass and the Higg's boson proves it to be correct.
Connor, you do know how Darwin explained the apple falling dont you.
Well it hit hin on tthe head and his exlamation was "OUCH THAT HURTS", found as a small sidenote in his diary.
Lol Marie Curie was Polish.
I think.
Not American.
Marie Curie was Polish but lived in France.
Marie Curie was Polish
You might be confusing that the work carried out in America by a British scientist is an American invention. I remember the 1960’s when many American companies recruited British Science graduates lucrative top jobs in America. In the UK it was called “The Brain Drain”.
Disappointed that there was no love for Michael Faraday, whose foundational work with electromagnetism most of those mentioned relied upon.
Very few things have been invented by Americans.
Many inventions pre date their country 😂
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Most influential and creative nation on earth. Not bad for a Little Rock floating off mainland Europe
Tim Berners-Lee gave his invention to the world. He could have tied it up with copywrite issues but he choose not to do that.
What about Maxwell, Faraday etc.
The 'Higgs/Bosen' was called 'The God Particle'.
Alan Turing died and a bitten apple was found . Apple logo is said to honour Alan Turning
Higgs Bosun particle was a theory. The Collider proved it's existence.
It's wild that such a small island has given the world so much.
I'm proud to be English/British with all our faults the modern world is such because of my people.
And maggots in wounds actually are for cleaning away the dead flesh, leaving just the clean healthy tissue behind when removed.
Strictly speaking, Stephen Hawking did not have motor neurone disease but amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ATLS).
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Religious dogma was, and still is, a huge factor in the suppression of scientific discovery and its ultimate wide-scale understanding by the general population.
Throughout the centuries, it was often only those who were educated in religious institutions that were taught to read, which left the vast majority of people to take their understanding of the world from their religious leaders - who, for obvious reasons, would suppress or actively deny and denounce any discovery that threatened the dogma and indoctrination that was disseminated from scripture to the populace.
It’s worth noting that the wealthiest and most influential institutions in most countries were (and in some cases still are) ‘The Church’, and the scientific method and its discoveries were a dangerous threat to them - if people became more aware of methods to determine objective truth, as opposed to those that were automatically assumed to be divine, then they could decide to leave the church, ultimately threatening the churches wealth and power.
This has terrified religious organisations throughout history - which can be seen in the number of ‘apostates’ and ‘heretics’ that were murdered by order of the church, as a tool to quash the spread of free-thinking and science.
Bad list. Newton should be 1, Maxwell 2. Faraday should also have been included.
The usual American video with constant interruptions to make banal comments.
Marie Curie was Polish, but naturalised French.