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09-29-2007, 01:23 AM
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Re: People who should be more famous than they are
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there are seriously people who haven't heard of dylan kerouac or dostoevsky? they dropped out before year 11 english i guess [/ QUOTE ]I never studied Dylan or Kerouac(yet) formally. Also, I never said they aren't famous, but should be more-so :P 
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#32
09-29-2007, 01:34 AM
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Re: People who should be more famous than they are
Aaron McGruder
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09-29-2007, 04:00 AM
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Good call on Warren Zevon. Best one I could think of. I even started a thread about this very topic last fall, asking why he isn't more well known. [/ QUOTE ] He had two top 40 hits, a top ten album and two gold records. That's pretty freaking famous. [/ QUOTE ]WAHOOOOOO Also, my choices: Jack Kerouac Bob Dylan(though this in mainly in reference to my friends) Gah, so many others I can't think of atm Dostoevsky(famous but amazing) [/ QUOTE ] Unlike all the other people in this thread I've never heard of, all three of those people are very famous.
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#34
09-29-2007, 04:01 AM
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Re: People who should be more famous than they are
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[ QUOTE ] there are seriously people who haven't heard of dylan kerouac or dostoevsky? they dropped out before year 11 english i guess [/ QUOTE ]I never studied Dylan or Kerouac(yet) formally. Also, I never said they aren't famous, but should be more-so :P [/ QUOTE ] Oh well, in that case... I'll nominate the Beatles. ... ...
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#35
09-29-2007, 11:52 AM
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Here's one: Possibly the smartest man alive. Ed Witten singlehandedly resolved a lot of the dualities (~paradoxes) in string theory and has set the field off in whole new directions. [/ QUOTE ] If string theory ever amounts to anything as an actual descriptor of the world, I'll get on board for this. Until then, I think a Fields medal is probably about the right amount of fame for Witten.
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#36
09-29-2007, 01:29 PM
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Re: People who should be more famous than they are
Gregor Mendel
sure, he's famous, but he deserves more, imo
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#37
09-29-2007, 03:04 PM
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Re: People who should be more famous than they are
Nikola Tesla, mainly for what he foresaw and how much more ingenious he was than his more famous contemporary, Edison.
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#40
09-29-2007, 07:56 PM
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[ QUOTE ] Leo Szilard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3_Szil%C3%A1rd [/ QUOTE ] Totally. It always bugged me when kids would do projects on Einstein's involvement with the Manhattan project when all he did was write a letter. Szilard was the real man who got the ball rolling. [/ QUOTE ] Of course Einstein also came up with the science that made it all possible.
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