Who am I?

Geezer · « **Reply #40 on:** 08/07/2011 00:43:01 »

Quote from: Dr. Junix on 07/07/2011 09:07:44

Who is this guy? Clue: He is not the inventor of crashing airplanes..

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Spike Milligan?

Airthumbs · « **Reply #41 on:** 08/07/2011 00:50:26 »

More clues pleases, unless it's Spike.M. [

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Dr. Junix · « **Reply #42 on:** 08/07/2011 01:46:13 »

hahaha no.. it is not Spike M.

Airthumbs · « **Reply #43 on:** 08/07/2011 01:58:08 »

I know, I know, [

] Ibn al-Haytham [

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] The first true scientist.......

http://evolvingcomplexityii.wordpress.com/category/science/history-science/page/4/

Dr. Junix · « **Reply #44 on:** 08/07/2011 02:01:19 »

Wow... your researching powers amaze me Mr. Airthumbs...

Dr. Junix · « **Reply #45 on:** 08/07/2011 02:02:20 »

I actually mistook Ibn al-Haytham for Bin Laden.. LOL..

Airthumbs · « **Reply #46 on:** 08/07/2011 02:08:19 »

They do look similar but the beard tends to hide recognisable features making the appearance more generic, but what gave me a clue was that he was wearing something on his head that you intentionally hid.

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Dr. Junix · « **Reply #47 on:** 08/07/2011 02:24:09 »

haha.. I cropped that out, it would be a dead giveaway.. and whats albert einstein doing with his tongue out? is he practicing for a fellatio or sumthing?

Airthumbs · « **Reply #48 on:** 08/07/2011 02:56:46 »

I think he did not like his picture taken and was hoping to make it unusable. It had the reverse effect, [

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Dr. Junix · « **Reply #49 on:** 11/07/2011 01:20:48 »

Ain't that photoshopped? Is it a real pciture?

damocles · « **Reply #50 on:** 11/07/2011 07:42:59 »

Not my turn, but here goes:
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-- I had a particular interest in the human soul, as my name might (co-incidentally) suggest. This interest was the main motivation behind my scientific researches.
-- I discovered and described something new and important, but saw it in a totally mistaken theoretical framework. It is the main reason my name is remembered today.
-- I am usually remembered and credited as one of three co-discoverers of this thing.

imatfaal · « **Reply #51 on:** 11/07/2011 10:51:55 »

'dephlogisticated' is one of my very favourite words

damocles · « **Reply #52 on:** 11/07/2011 14:12:36 »

right on, imaatfal

Geezer · « **Reply #53 on:** 11/07/2011 17:21:44 »

Spike Milligan?

Dr. Junix · « **Reply #54 on:** 14/07/2011 01:18:58 »

Heath Ledger?

widereader · « **Reply #55 on:** 21/12/2011 23:15:11 »

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Quote from: Airthumbs on 26/06/2011 20:23:14

D.Mendeleev [] and if correct it should be known that different sources indicate that he was either one of 11,13,14 or 17 siblings......

Who am I? Some of my work involved identifying the killer of silkworms. By body lies beneath an institute named after myself...... who am I?

Mendeleev also was the Father of the Modern Periodic table. I did not know he had lots of siblings. Great post.

diogenesNY · « **Reply #56 on:** 02/03/2012 00:32:57 »

who am I...?

The guy I worked for..... real big shot, household name. Me? Well, I did some pretty good work too, kinda overshadowed by The Boss tho..... guess that happens, no regrets tho.

See, thing is, I had actually met The Boss and we became friends before I started working with him.... basically I was his ~~galley slave~~ grad assistant. We actually got pretty close. I am godfather to his children.

The Boss.... lemme tell you, this guy has researched and written about a lot, and I mean A LOT of topics... the depth and breadth he went into and the ideas he developed are amazing, if sometimes a bit intimidating..... and for what its worth, being his #2 was the opportunity of a lifetime.... but damn, he sometimes drove some of us a bit crazy, couldn't seem to sit still..... was always wandering around and we would all have to chase after him to hear what he was saying.

So, like I was saying.... The Boss had near rock star status (well, as it applies to someone in his line anyway) but for reasons that... well... need not be gone into right now, things.... um..... lets just say that the situation got a bit dicey for us at home and we considered it the better part of valor to make ourselves scarce for a while.

So, The Boss and I split town and we head, as it happens, back to my old stomping grounds where I figure we can hole up a while, relatively unmolested. Now, here we were, stuck on this island in the middle of.... um.... that doesn't really matter..... but here away from the school we found ourselves with a bit of time on our hands. Needless to say, guy like The Boss isn't going to just sit around picking his nose, so he set to work on a new research project, and so did I.

I used my time there researching and authoring a set of books on plants. Describing observed specimens, categorizing them by properties, and attempting to explore and describe particular aspects of their nature. This turned out to be pretty well received and regarded. Some people even viewed it as groundbreaking. The Boss turned his attention to animals, with his usual intensity and output.

Anyway, so the situation, shall we say, got a little less threatening for us and we decided that we could safely return (to his) home and resume our work there. Kindof annoying how external politics can drive these things and create such personal dislocations in people's lives and work, but then again our self imposed exile seems to have allowed us to produce some seminal works.

Again, I kinda found myself in The Boss' shadow and my published output may have been smaller compared to his, but it was a damn sight more and better than anyone else I knew of, and dammit, I broke a lot of important ground too!

And, yes the pun IS intentional, and I don't give a gohwdam if Bass and Jimbob get all bent out of shape about my use of the term 'Stones'. (Now, don't go getting the wrong idea..... I think they are great guys... know their stuff... 'distinct' sense of humor .... hell, I just might add them to my compilation of Characters.)

Meteorology, physics, sensation and other things all interest me....... and NO! I _am not_ spreading myself too thin.

Enough of this.... I really have to get back to work.... things are starting to get awfully busy around here.... I seem to spend more of my time doing all this administrivia and operating the outfit than actually doing much real research nowadays..... wages of success, I guess.

So, who am I?

damocles · « **Reply #57 on:** 06/03/2012 11:17:13 »

Diogenes congratulations on a very clever presentation of a remarkable puzzle. I do not have a solution, but it has inspired me to broaden my horizons by reading quite a bit of biography.

I have found three near misses, but none of them close enough to be a solution. Interestingly two of them involve namesakes: George Bass, navigator and zoological cataloguer, early 19th century Australian, and George Bass 20th century American Underwater archaeologist. The third is some sort of twist on the Lyell, Darwin, Wallace triumvirate, but that one really feels like force fitting.

imatfaal · « **Reply #58 on:** 06/03/2012 17:41:17 »

I was thinking along the lines of Plato and Aristotle - but not enough evidence.

Geezer · « **Reply #59 on:** 08/03/2012 01:21:10 »

Quote from: imatfaal on 06/03/2012 17:41:17

I was thinking along the lines of Plato and Aristotle - but not enough evidence.

Theophrastus? (He hung out with Aristotle.)