Oh, come on..........
heh, sorry. I never read post 13's. Superstitious and whatnot
Theres a few other ones I repeated from earlier without realizing it, as well.
People the next generations will remember, part 2
-Jack Canfield
-Joseph Bombardier (Canadian inventor; his name lives on in engineering company)
-Artem Mikoyan (the Russians will)
-Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (head designer at Lockheed Martin; designed SR-71 and U-2, among others)
-Vladislav Tretiak
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Bombardier is a good one 👍. Tretiak on the other hand... well I know and you know who he is, as would a large percentage of Canada and Russia, but I'm positive the rest of the world has no idea. Also, how on earth can you have Tretiak on there, and not Paul Henderson?
Continuing your Canadian twist though:
- Ron Maclean & Don Cherry (already practically immortalized)
- Tim Horton (well, maybe not the person, but everyone will know the name)
- Roberta Bondar
- Pierre Trudeau
- David Suzuki
- Terry Fox
- Lester B Pearson
- The Shat
A few more. These are geared specifically at the OP's statement:
This topic just makes me wonder how much further we can possibly advance. It seems as if we are advancing in such small steps now, as compared to the industrial revolution, that nobody is currently standing out.
I disagree. I think science and technology is advancing at an alarming rate, such a rate that domestic lifestyles and convenience products can't really keep up. The reason it's difficult to come up with modern people who's contributions seem as large as Newton or Bell is because in many cases large discoveries or ideas are now made by
corporations. Another is that the direction of much of science and technological research is into fairly abstract principles that have no real application into everyday life for the majority of people, or that take a very long time to trickle down into everyday appliances.
These names are a little more science/technology themed than last ones I posted so I can't say that these will be remembered/recognized by everyone but I think their work (whatever it may be) will be heavily integrated into everyday life in the near future if it hasn't been already. You'll probably detect a little personal interest in some of the names here
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- Sumio Iijima ('discovery' of carbon nanotubes)
- Ludwig Prandtl (huge contributions to understanding of heat transfer and fluid dynamics, he even has a number named after him . Incidentally, he was the one to define a 'boundary layer' and indicate it's importance in the two fields mentioned)
- Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius (student of Prandtl, continued his boundary layer research)
- Theodore von Karman (another student of Prandtl, aeordyamics & fluid dynamics contributions, von Karman integral ie. more boundary layer stuff)
- Enrico Fermi (physicist that worked on the world's first nuclear reactor)
- Paul Dirac (quantum mechanics)
- Dean Kamen (American inventor best known for the Segway, but has done extensive work with Stirling engines)
- Sergey Brin & Larry Page (for Google)
- Raymond Kurzweil (speech-to-text and text-to-speech translators and optical sensors for character recognition)
- Chester Carlson (xerography, brought the Xerox company to fame)
- Keith Campbell, Ian Wilmut, and Dolly the Sheep (cloning)
By no means exhaustive, just a few names I'm familiar with.
