You can't compare an entrepreneur with scientists. Where would you put 
Thomas Midgely in your order of things? He was a mechanical engineer but 
he revolutionised life for millions (and possibly killed many) in the 
'tween-wars by inventing/discovering two chemicals, tetraethyl lead 
(TEL) and fluorotrichloromethane (CFC-11). The fact that both chemicals 
are banned today for different environmental reasons is not material.

Also the fact that some of the great scientific brains mentioned 
assisting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands by work leading up to 
and including the Manhattan Project should also be considered.

There are still great theoretical scientists today in various 
disciplines. You may here the names of some of them announced this week.

Brian

On 07/10/2012 22:32, Anil Kher wrote:
> been reading abt Quantum - and am surprised at the number of ideas,
> visualisations and theories that came up from 1900 to 1930s w/o an internet
> but a whole community that shared knowledge and encouraged and also shafted
> ideas- that broke the mould and fuelled all the tech growth by opening new
> paths.
>
>
>
> since then to date it is all D & D and multidisciplinary synthesis like"I P"
> products or MS DOS/Windows.
>
>
>
> But then to put a steve jobs on the same platform as Pauli or Born or Bohr
> or Einstein or Schrodinger or 100 others is abs blasphemy. but that is the
> world of today .no comment. Forgive my order of names -
>
> Anil
>
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