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A lot, if not most of the important scientific discoveries were result of work of "an army of one". From biosciences to physics you can do amazing stuff. We don
by 6d6b73 7y ago
A lot, if not most of the important scientific discoveries were result of work of "an army of one". From biosciences to physics you can do amazing stuff. We don't need any new zuckebergs that siphone all of the great minds that are out there into showing more ads.
- ken 7y agoThe individual scientific discovery was common in the early history of science, but has grown less common over time. Looking at this list [1], for example: - Prior to roughly WWII, it was mostly individuals, and so we named things after them (Kelvin, Doppler, Joule, Ohm, etc). - From WWII until the late 20th century, it was a lot of small teams (transistor, 3; DNA, 4; pulsars, 2; etc). - Since then, team sizes have grown so that individuals aren't even named (cloning, an Institute; Top Quark, a Lab; Tau neutrino, a Collaboration; etc). In fact, in the past 35 years, the only individually named contributors on that list were mathematicians who constructed proofs of long-standing unsolved problems in mathematics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_scientific_discoveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_scientific_discove...