TIME Magazine's 20 Scientists and Thinkers

[Lilith]

are:

Edward Witten
Steven Pinker
Eric Lander
Korean Cloners
Paul Ridker
Hernando de Soto
Jeff Sachs
Linus Torvalds
Niall Ferguson
Bernard Lewis
Tariq Ramadan
Jürgen Habermas
Samantha Power
Sandra Day O'Connor
Jill Tarter
Julie Gerberding
Joschka Fischer
Bjorn Lomborg
Jong-Wook Lee
Louise Arbour

How many do you know? Any clue what their major contributions have been?

[skyler_m]

I know of a few. Sandra Day O'Connor is a US Supreme Court Justice.

Julie Gerberding is the director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. I have a friend that works there, so that's the only reason I have heard her name before.

The other name that I've heard is Linus Torvalds. He created Linux. Welcome to the world of open applications!

If you had looked further down the list, I'm #27. :D

[Lilith]

I know;) You are just below me :p

[PantyFanatic]

I, sadly,:( was only able to acknowledge two with any insight to their work other than Sandra Day O’Connor. Two others were remotely known to me because of their fields of work and I had to check to even confirm they were the right ones.:o

The very first, Edward Witten, because of his successive work with Richard Feynman was the bell ringer that had me optimistic about the list.:)
Jill Tarter is synonymous with SETI and is deeply entrenched in my personal interests.:confused:
I believed I recognized Eric Lander only because of the completion of the Genome Project last year and my interest in the significance of that, but couldn’t have given you his name first.:o
I just happen to run across Jeff Sachs recently because of interest in global population issues but most likely could not have even made a connection three months from now.:o

The name Sandra Day O'Connor is well known to us all because of her position. Her decisions effect economics and the media WILL keep that in our face. I have to plead ignorance of her standing and the respect she has outside of the political environment.:o


We all know the members of the Jackson family and the NFL leading players. :rolleyes: I am truly saddened and concerned that we, ourselves, and the institutions of information and learning have the priorities we do.:(

We just recently had a discussion about such matters on this board.
http://www.pixies-place.com:81/forums/showthread.php?threadid=20115&highlight=checkout

[Bardog]

WHAT?????

I got left out again this year????

[Gilly]

I can't believe it. Those finks promised me spot #1! Damn the man! That's the last time I strip without getting paid first!


-grins-

In all honesty, I only recognized the name Sandra Day O'Conner off the bat, but after hearing what he did, I have heard of Linus.

[Steph]

Wow, I've only heard of a few, too. I'm going to have to pick up that edition, I reckon!

[lakritze]

Korean Cloners?????? You mean all of them?

[Belial]

Linus Torvalds I know, as he is the originator of Linux and overseer of the kernel.