Comments on: Can you name a scientist? Not too many Americans can, it turns out.

By: Someone

Someone — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:06:54 +0000

Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos on a ship named Beagle in 1831 to 1836

By: Haxcid

Haxcid — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:05:13 +0000

Bill Nigh the science guy!

By: Haxcid

Haxcid — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:04:48 +0000

Inventor. Big Difference.

By: Haxcid

Haxcid — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:03:47 +0000

Is it sad I knew it was Tesla right off? Naa… Just educated…

Edison was an inventor not a scientist. He invented products to work with existing technologies.

By: Tunecatcher

Tunecatcher — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:40:57 +0000

It’s not however said about the details of the poll…

I can’t fully trust it just because it’s about Americans.

By: user

user — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:49:19 +0000

Dr No…

By: pji

pji — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:34:06 +0000

…and nobody mentioned Hawkings? Shame on you :)

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:31:58 +0000

Alexander Fleming? These ‘people’ couldn’t name the being responsible for discovering possibly the biggest medical breakthrough of the 20th century… ala people not dying from cuts anymore?

By: pji

pji — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:30:57 +0000

Americans are too busy “paying Jesus”, trying to push creationism in schools, and stocking up for the next big world ending event in 2012 to care about science.

By: qwerty

qwerty — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:49:04 +0000

i know!! i know!! there are plenty of those in america!! they even made it to the magazines!!

Dr Doom, Dr Octopus, David Banner, Dr Ross, Mr Fantastic, Young Apprentice-Peter Parker.. the lot!!

easy peasy!! haha!!

By: Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:46:41 +0000

Darwin? Mr. Wizard? Sagan? sigh…

By: phonixor

phonixor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:58:11 +0000

who cares about scientist names…
that doesn’t matter at all…
its the cool stuff they worked on that is good to know….

By: eattrn

eattrn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:21:18 +0000

Was Edison a scientist? Tesla might not have agreed.

By: j micari

j micari — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:21:31 +0000

Tesla’s property is for sale in Shoreham NY for 1.6 million if your interested. And they want to bulldoze it.. Maybe thats because nobody cares anymore

By: Mankhool

Mankhool — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:06:02 +0000

Even the Nobel Prize Awards are media fodder annually and should help people come up with names.

I’m a Canuck so here’s two local ones from Vancouver, Michael Smith and David Suzuki.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:41:43 +0000

I wonder how many people offered up “Doc Brown”?

By: J-Chrome

J-Chrome — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:39:57 +0000

Only 20% of adults graduate from college. While that doesn’t mean the 80% that are left over are idiots… half of those probably are….so 40% of our country is stupid. Roughly Half. Makes you wanna go do something stupid and join the rest right?