@Meaningness im sure you do but want to make sure you know about mark wilson, who seems very postrat to mehttps://ndpr.nd.edu/news/physics-avoidance-essays-in-conceptual-strategy/ …
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My god, he invented practically everything! I had no idea. And got no credit at the time because he was working class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside …
I'd thought he at least got a dolphin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside%27s_dolphin … But apparently that was a different Heaviside (and a misspelling anyway)
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He also invented/discovered Cherenkov radiation, the Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction, the Lorentz force, the Dirac delta function, the Bromwich integral, and the Poynting vector. Along with, you know, vector calculus and most of classical EM. Plus, painted his fingernails pink.
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They did eventually reluctantly make him an FRS.
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That’s a very cool dolphin.
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