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孙博华：100名伟大科学家中竟然没有一个中国人
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孙博华：有史以来100名伟大科学家中竟然没有一个中国人
由于身在国外，对祖国的每一成就都感到自豪和光荣，也特别希望每时每刻将这些能传给儿女，以便让他们也能与我一起分享这种好的感觉。
2008年初买到一本书，该书由 RUMC(HK)Ltd.出版的《100Great Scientists》【百名伟大科学家】(ISBN0-7554-6624-1)。我原本想一定有中国人，就是没有现代的中国人，那一定也会有中国古人。
但当我从头看到最后的第一百科学家时，我怎么都不相信其中没有一个中国人！怕看走眼了，又反复看了几遍都没有看到任何有Chinese的地方。太失望了，想想自己的学问只够对付工作，那产生“四大发明” 【是技术层面的贡献，没上升到理性思维】的古国有那么多的人，怎么就没有一个人如选。看来这个问题是中国的老问题，所以到现在都还没有本土的得“诺贝尔奖”。
在100名伟大科学家中，除了希腊、罗马、意大利、波兰、荷兰、英国、德国、美国、埃及等国的科学家、特别是有5名印度科学家（2名古代，3名现代）。开始心理有些不服，但看来他们的贡献就心服口服了，比如一印度数学家发现了“0”及其运算。
所有这100名伟大科学家的贡献，都有一个共同的特点就是其思维深刻，影响至今甚至永远！
转发：由于还希望有不同版本的伟大科学家名单，在网上找没找到，但发现一类似的英文材料，特别copy，供参考。
http://topoftheword.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E4B199B41F7DC930!574.entry
100 Greatest Scientists
The weekend of November 5-6 was a fiasco when I got taken in by a marketing ploy of an electronic store in Singapore. I made amends for it this Sunday (November 13) by making some useful purchases aimed at holiday reading for my children. One was an illustrated book offering insights into some of the discoveries that helped change the world for the better.
By showcasing what the publishers (Grandreams Ltd of the U.K.) thought were the world’s 100 greatest scientists ever, the book transports us into realms that stretch far beyond their inventions and leave us stumped for their historical import as well.
Galileo Missing: My second daughter, who will be 12 in January, ran through the names first and quickly asked me why Galileo, considered by many academics as the father of modern science, did not figure in the list.
But for her, I am sure the question would not have crossed my mind. I told her it could be because the list included two other great astronomers, Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler. She didn't appear convinced, so I had to add that any list of this nature is bound to throw up some disagreements such as this.
Five Indians in List: Interestingly, while the list of ancient scientists is dominated by Greek scholars (Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, etc) it also includes two Indians – Susruta, a sixth century BC surgeon, and Brahmagupta, credited with the discovery of zero (0) and its functions.
There are three other Indians in the list and they are from the modern era – physicists Jagdish Chandra Bose and Sir C V Raman as well as the mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Then there is Sir Ronald Ross, a bacteriologist who was born in India in 1837 and, while still in the country, discovered the organism that causes malaria. The book also lists British geneticist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane who died of cancer in India in 1964.
Some of the others in the list of 100 are Sir Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Edmond Halley, Henry Cavendish, Alexander Fleming, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Sigmund Freud, Paul Ehrlich, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) is a great resource for information on all of them.
Surprisingly, there is no Chinese scientist in the list.
https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-72754-36985.html
上一篇：孙博华:我与导师叶开沅先生
下一篇：孙博华：我招博士后和博士生（开普顿市）
由于身在国外，对祖国的每一成就都感到自豪和光荣，也特别希望每时每刻将这些能传给儿女，以便让他们也能与我一起分享这种好的感觉。
2008年初买到一本书，该书由 RUMC(HK)Ltd.出版的《100Great Scientists》【百名伟大科学家】(ISBN0-7554-6624-1)。我原本想一定有中国人，就是没有现代的中国人，那一定也会有中国古人。
但当我从头看到最后的第一百科学家时，我怎么都不相信其中没有一个中国人！怕看走眼了，又反复看了几遍都没有看到任何有Chinese的地方。太失望了，想想自己的学问只够对付工作，那产生“四大发明” 【是技术层面的贡献，没上升到理性思维】的古国有那么多的人，怎么就没有一个人如选。看来这个问题是中国的老问题，所以到现在都还没有本土的得“诺贝尔奖”。
在100名伟大科学家中，除了希腊、罗马、意大利、波兰、荷兰、英国、德国、美国、埃及等国的科学家、特别是有5名印度科学家（2名古代，3名现代）。开始心理有些不服，但看来他们的贡献就心服口服了，比如一印度数学家发现了“0”及其运算。
所有这100名伟大科学家的贡献，都有一个共同的特点就是其思维深刻，影响至今甚至永远！
转发：由于还希望有不同版本的伟大科学家名单，在网上找没找到，但发现一类似的英文材料，特别copy，供参考。
http://topoftheword.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E4B199B41F7DC930!574.entry
100 Greatest Scientists
The weekend of November 5-6 was a fiasco when I got taken in by a marketing ploy of an electronic store in Singapore. I made amends for it this Sunday (November 13) by making some useful purchases aimed at holiday reading for my children. One was an illustrated book offering insights into some of the discoveries that helped change the world for the better.
By showcasing what the publishers (Grandreams Ltd of the U.K.) thought were the world’s 100 greatest scientists ever, the book transports us into realms that stretch far beyond their inventions and leave us stumped for their historical import as well.
Galileo Missing: My second daughter, who will be 12 in January, ran through the names first and quickly asked me why Galileo, considered by many academics as the father of modern science, did not figure in the list.
But for her, I am sure the question would not have crossed my mind. I told her it could be because the list included two other great astronomers, Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler. She didn't appear convinced, so I had to add that any list of this nature is bound to throw up some disagreements such as this.
Five Indians in List: Interestingly, while the list of ancient scientists is dominated by Greek scholars (Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, etc) it also includes two Indians – Susruta, a sixth century BC surgeon, and Brahmagupta, credited with the discovery of zero (0) and its functions.
There are three other Indians in the list and they are from the modern era – physicists Jagdish Chandra Bose and Sir C V Raman as well as the mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Then there is Sir Ronald Ross, a bacteriologist who was born in India in 1837 and, while still in the country, discovered the organism that causes malaria. The book also lists British geneticist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane who died of cancer in India in 1964.
Some of the others in the list of 100 are Sir Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Edmond Halley, Henry Cavendish, Alexander Fleming, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Sigmund Freud, Paul Ehrlich, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) is a great resource for information on all of them.
Surprisingly, there is no Chinese scientist in the list.
https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-72754-36985.html
上一篇：孙博华:我与导师叶开沅先生
下一篇：孙博华：我招博士后和博士生（开普顿市）
