Aw, shucks.

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Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Linus Pauling (I have to give props to fellow chemists, even though he went overboard on this Vitamin C stuff)
Carl Sagan (The Great Communicator).
Neils Bohr.

There. I stopped at 5, but I admire all of them really.

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If you admire him so much, then how about you learn to spell his name right?

It's Niels Bohr.

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Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

How about you pardon me for making a common spelling mistake?

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Olsen the moderator.

That one and the similar one with Tolkien will get a comment from me every time, there needs to be a correction nearby for when people google it.

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Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

Similar one with Tolkien? Take a break, Mr Olsen.

I apologize for misspelling Niels Bohr's name, but google will also bring up your vituperation about innocent misspellings -and those same misspellings- will it not?

My spell checker highlights OLSEN as a misspelling.

I think you have some inscrutable grudge against me.

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Olsen the moderator.

It's difficult to NOT hold a grudge against someone that held the entire planet at ransom for $1million dollars with a "La-ser" on the Moon named the Alan Parsons Project.

I have some Danish scientist friends. I count all of them among the finest scientists I have worked with. Two of them are lifelong friends.

One is Lars R.
Anders T is another.
Karsten P is a cool guy too.

And not a one of them has shown the kind of defensive attitude Mr Olsen has.

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We all get a little grumpy sometimes.
You're being pretty defensive yourself at the moment. Relax.

Someday I'm sure I'll set of your fuse too.

I took it to the triangle thing first.

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My favorite scientist is Dr. Robert J. Behnke, Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University. He single-handedly did more than any other person in the world to document the biodiversity within the Salmonidae--and besides that, he was a Korean War veteran as well as a nice guy. He has a photographic memory, and speaks pretty fluent Russian. He raised a couple of great kids, and is still married to his wife after all these years.

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Carl Gauss - I guess he's more of a mathematician.

Euler too. It almost became a running joke in our engineering classes that the next derivation or principle would be "Euler's theorem".

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