newton
In my history book it had said that Sir Isaac Newton was the greatest scientist that ever lived.
Isaac Newton is the Fathe/Founderr of Modern Science and the Greatest Scientist.
Traditionally the first philosopher is considered to be Thales. see link. The greatest scientist is a matter of opinion but I would like to vote for Isaac Newton.
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin or Isaac Newton are generally considered to be the greatest scientists.
Greatest Scientists of all timeAlbert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Isaac Newton. Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.
He was the greatest scientist of the last 500 years, but he accomplished nothing in alchemy.
No newton was a scientist that worked alone
Probably England's Sir Issac Newton, whose laws of science affected more people than any other scientist. Picking the single greatest scientist is more based on opinion than determined fact.
Sir Isaac Newton was not an Austalian scientist. Newton lived and died before Austalia was settled.
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Isaac Newton was probably the greatest polymath. Other brilliant scientists such as Curie, Einstein, Hawking etc tended to have narrower fields; and of course had a huge number of tools available to them, tools developed by earlier scientists.