On 12-01-16 05:11 PM, Zell, Chris wrote:
Edison was a greedy liar and cheat who was cruel to animals. Schrodinger was a
bigamist. MLK and possibly Einstein were plagiarists.
I've read Poincare's papers Einstein supposedly plagiarized.
In a word ... he didn't. Poincare had a lot of the pieces but it was
Einstein who put them together. (And if that's plagiarism, then every
mathematician who ever wrote a paper is guilty of it, with the possible
exception of some Greek whose name we've all forgotten.)
Can't comment on the rest of these, save to note that there are an awful
lot of "little men who want to tear down big men" running around writing
stuff. You can't always believe what you read when someone claims
so-and-so really wasn't so great after all.
Werner Von Braun was a Nazi and may have held rank in the SS. Tesla was a
OCD-laden nutball.
I'm not sure I'd buy a used car from any of them. OTOH, I still respect their
achievements.
If "Rashomon" Rossi gets it all together, I have my Home Depot credit card
ready. Then, I can stop buying 40lb bags for my pellet stove there.
