10 LEGENDARY Discoveries and Scientists

"From the enigma that is Nikola Tesla,to the 2 friends that cracked the DNA code, These are 10 of the Most LEGENDARY Discoveries and Scientists

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5.Louis Pasteur -
December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895 | France

You ever drink pasteurized milk? You ever wonder why it’s called pasteurized? It is because of Louis Pasteur. He discovered that heating up certain foods and drinks destroyed most of the bad bacteria that caused spoilage.

He also discovered the cause of fermentation, which opened the door for all those different tasty wines and micro brews, because people realized that different microorganisms cause different end products during the fermentation process. So, CHEERS TO YOU GUY !

4.Alexander Fleming - Penicillin
6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955 | England
Alexander Fleming as a Scottish biologist who kind of stumbled across the first instance of an antibiotic... ever.

To quote him, ""When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer,"" Fleming would later say, ""But I suppose that was exactly what I did.""

It is impossible to say with certainty how many lives have been saved because of penicillin, but a general estimate is between 82 million to 200 million !

Even though he was the first person to cultivate penicillin, it took a big team from Oxford a few more years to figure out how to produce the product for the masses.

3.James Watson and Francis Crick - DNA
born April 6, 1928 | USA , 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 | England

Since 1869, physicists believed that a “giant hereditary molecule” existed, it wasn’t until 1953 that
James Watson and Francis Crick gave us the first correct model of DNA Structure.

This opened the gates, and minds to such things as genetic engineering in terms of evolution, profiling, bioinformatics and nanotechnology.

Also we might actually get a real life Jurassic Park someday. Which is pretty cool.

2.Albert Einstein - Theory of Relativity
14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 | German Empire

There might never be enough said about the extraordinary mind of Albert Einstein.

He created a whole new way of looking at our world, and his most famous equation is
E=mc2 , which means that the energy equals mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light. In simple words, tiny amounts of mass can hold INSANE amounts of energy.

It would be a disservice to the man to try and explain his genius in a short video, so I will leave this segment with one of his own quotes

""When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.""

1.Nikola Tesla - AC Current
10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943 | Serbia

Did you know that Tesla worked for Thomas Edison at one point? He even redesigned the direct current electric generators that were supposed to be the best in the world. He completed the work and after a dispute over payment, Tesla left Edison’s company on bad terms, heck you could say that he even held a grudge.

Things didn’t work out so well for him for the next few years, until two investors from New York decided to give him money capital.

At that point, the real “War of Currents” started. It was Edison’s Direct Current vs Tesla’s Alternating Current. Needless to say, Tesla won.

Tesla was much more than an inventor, he had a mind for a different future. He wanted wireless electricity, he wanted radio controlled machinery and he believed in the existence of a “death ray”.

Tesla’s life can be summarized in short as the “mad scientist.”

Being quoted on pigeons, Tesla had this to say

“I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.”"