Because there was no mass media to make him a star? While Einstein was the most significant scientific mind since Newton, Newton was responsible for a branch of physics "for the real world" AND calculus. Plus he did things with optics and light.

Einstein was practically worthless in math. Although his work was both important at the atomic/quantum level, as well as astrophysics - much of his importance is based on his research filling in the gaps that Newtonian physics didn't account for. That's clean-up work, relatively speaking.

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Posted on 4/2/14 at 9:16 pm to Ace Midnight

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I'm having trouble proving some of my theories so I think that I'll just invent calculus to help me out. Newton.

Haha, pretty much this

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Plus he did things with optics and light.

I don't think he gets enough credit for his work in fluid dynamics personally. NO ONE mapped fluids mathematically before Newton.

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Einstein was practically worthless in math. Although his work was both important at the atomic/quantum level, as well as astrophysics - much of his importance is based on his research filling in the gaps that Newtonian physics didn't account for. That's clean-up work, relatively speaking.

Let's not completely discount Einstein. Relativity is one of the most mind-boggling concepts in science. To be able to think of time not as an absolute figure but as a relative concept is still something I'd say 99% of the educated world struggles with.

I might give Einstein the nod if he wasn't so vehemently against quantum mechanics (something he could conceivably be considered the discovering father of).

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