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Your ten most influential people of the last 100 years
Catorgaries:
Rules: they can have been born in the 19th Century but they have to have done their greatest work in the last 100 years
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Maths
Literature
Classical Music
Popular Music
Politics
Art
Peace Prize
My Choices.
Physics :- Albert Einstein
Chemistry :- Herman Staudinger
Biology :- Watson, Crick, Franklin, Wilkins (as a group and yes I credit Franklin!)
Maths :- Norbert wiener (not weener )
Literature :- Stephen King (I could have gone for Tolkien, Frank Herbert (Dune), even HG Wells as most of wells work was published post 1906 although the Invisible Man and War of the Worlds were not). I've gone for King because I see him as the first great popularist writer of the television age. He has tapped into the worlds psyche and produced best sellers for more than 30 years and some of the like the Green Mile or Rita Haworth and the Shawshank Redemption have become trancendent. The Dark Tower is pretentios but true clever.
Classical Music :- Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff I could have gone forsomeone like Elgar, Puccini, Strauss or Debusey, I like Rachmaninoff and I guess his another popularist choice for me.
Popular Music :- John Lennon
Politics :- Winston Churchill
Art :- Andy Warhol "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. " "Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again." nuff said!
Peace Prize:- Mahatma Gandhi for me takes it over Mandella due to his adherance from the start to non violence.
This is my personal list it's not right and it's not wrong! What are your choices and why? If you've given it some thought they are not right or wrong either even if they are very different to mine.
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Physics: Einstein
Chemistry: Marie Curie maybe.....
Biology: Watson and Cricks
Maths: Maybe Courant
Literature: James Joyce...I guess.
Classical Music: Alban Berg
Popular Music: John Lennon
Politics: Hitler
Art: Salvador Dali
Peace Prize: Ghandi
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Updated it a bit...but Hitler had certainly a major Impact...some might argue that William II had more overall but he'S really more a 19th century person....
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Exactly, as I said their can be no right or wrong in this thread if you've given it thought. Although I might revise mine and agree with Bardock on Hitler.
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The Physics and Classical Music were hardest for me so many to choose from getting a shortlist was really hard. Bohr, Heisenberg etc and then all the later ones. Yup Physics was hard so I went for the guy who changed it all first.
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Physics (none)
Chemistry (none)
Biology (none)
Maths (none)
Literature: John Steinbeck
Classical Music: (none)
Popular Music: B.B. King and Bono
Politics: MLK
Art: H.G. Giger
Peace Prize: That lady from Guatemala (I forgot her name..but she's cool)
Seeing as there is nobody personally influential to me in science, I'll just do the others:
Literature: Alan Moore.
Classical Music: Rachmaninov.
Popular Music: Mike Patton or Prince.
Politics: I would say John Kennedy.
Art: Alex Grey.
Peace Prize: Over time, I'd agree with WD and say M.L.K.
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Wait a sexond.....is it "Your Top Ten of most influential people of the last 100 years" or "Top Ten of most influential people to you in the last 100 years"?
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Who you think are the most influential overall. I guess in comics AC is right with Alan Moore and its a kind of literature which only started in the twentieth century and as valid as my going for Warhol in art and I agree totally Alan Moore is the most influential in Americas most original art form (even though Moores a brit ). I like all his choices all yours and all WDs cases I think could be made for all of them!
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He is but, I'll take Miracleman, The Watchmen, V for Vendetta (when it was written not now it really doesn't scan anymore) over Millers work, that said his Dareveil run in the late 70's early 80's violenve was a secret pleasure I kept from my parents and Darknight although dated is always enjoyable to reread!
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Mar 6th, 2006 08:08 PM
Maybe later....
strangely...... No! 
). I like all his choices all yours and all WDs cases I think could be made for all of them!
