https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Pianojag83explain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-17T04:38:01ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2632:_Greatest_Scientist&diff=2868362632: Greatest Scientist2022-06-13T19:25:01Z<p>Pianojag83: Added Galileo</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2632<br />
| date = June 13, 2022<br />
| title = Greatest Scientist<br />
| image = Greatest Scientist.png<br />
| titletext = "Ow! One of the petri dishes I left on the tower railing fell and hit me on the head. Hey, that gives me an idea..."<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a HUMAN!!! - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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This comic pretends that many (6 by my count) of history's greatest scientists were the same person, and says that this person was the greatest scientist in history. A combination of 6 of the greatest scientists ever would most likely be the greatest scientist ever.{{Citation needed}}<br />
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These scientists are most likely {{w|Galileo Galilei}}, {{w|Benjamin Franklin}}, {{w|Alexander Flemming}}, {{w|Ivan Pavlov}}, {{w|Eratosthenes}}, and {{w|Isaac Newton}}<br />
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Humorously combining multiple science experiments into one was also a punchline in [[1584: Moments of Inspiration]].<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+ List of experiments in the comic<br />
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! Experiment in comic !! Experiment in reality !! Meaning !! Scientist<br />
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| The Leaning Tower of Pisa || asdfadsf || leaning tower of pisa|| Galileo Galilei<br />
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|While flying a kite into a distant thunderstorm, where lightning || In june 1952, Benjamin Franklin performed his famous {{w|Kite experiment}}, where he attatched a conductive wire to a kite, and flew it near a thunderstorm. Attatched to the kite was a key, which was further attached to a {{w|leyden jar}} || While the kite was not hit by lightnign, "Franklin did notice that loose threads of the kite string were repelling each other and deduced that the Leyden jar was being charged" This is sometimes considered the discovery of the fact that lightning contains/is electricity. || {{w|Benjamin Franklin}}.<br />
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| caused two mouldy petri dishes to fall || || || {{w|Alexander Flemming}}<br />
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| Onto a bell next to a salivating dog, || || || {{W|Ivan Pavlov}}<br />
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| whose shadow angle determined the circumference of The Earth. || || || {{w|Eratosthenes}}<br />
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| (Title text) fell and hit me on the head. Hey, that gives me an idea... || || || {{w|Isaac Newton}}<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:History's greatest scientist was probably that one who measured the shadow of the Leaning Tower of Pisa while flying a kite into a distant thunderstorm where lightning caused two moldy Petri dishes to fall onto a bell next to a salivating dog whose shadow angle determined the circumference of the Earth.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category: Science]]</div>Pianojag83https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2632:_Greatest_Scientist&diff=2868302632: Greatest Scientist2022-06-13T19:12:40Z<p>Pianojag83: /* Referencing Eratosthenes instead of Plato, perhaps? */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2632<br />
| date = June 13, 2022<br />
| title = Greatest Scientist<br />
| image = Greatest Scientist.png<br />
| titletext = "Ow! One of the petri dishes I left on the tower railing fell and hit me on the head. Hey, that gives me an idea..."<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a HUMAN!!! - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
This comic pretends that many (6 by my count) of history's greatest scientists were the same person, and says that this person was the greatest scientist in history. A combination of 6 of the greatest scientists ever would most likely be the greatest scientist ever.{{Citation needed}}<br />
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These scientists are most likely [Someone], {{w|Benjamin Franklin}}, {{w|Alexander Flemming}}, {{w|Ivan Pavlov}}, {{w|Eratosthenes}}, and {{w|Isaac Newton}}<br />
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Humorously combining multiple science experiments into one was also a punchline in [[1584: Moments of Inspiration]].<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+ Table title goes here<br />
|-<br />
! Experiment in comic !! Experiment in reality !! Meaning !! Scientist<br />
|-<br />
| test || test 2 || test 3 || test 4<br />
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|}<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript |Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:History's greatest scientist was probably that one who measured the shadow of the Leaning Tower of Pisa while flying a kite into a distant thunderstorm where lightning caused two moldy Petri dishes to fall onto a bell next to a salivating dog whose shadow angle determined the circumference of the Earth.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category: Science]]</div>Pianojag83