They say you know a person's worth when he's gone, this statement applies to the men in the article, their works were only appreciated, years after they died.

1. GREGOR JOHAN MENDEL
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An austrian-born scientist whose experiments gave birth to the laws of inheritance as we know it. Growing up, Johan struggled with his education due to illness and financial constraints. He became a Friar and took on the name Gregor so he wouldn't have to pay for his education.
while serving as a monk, Mendel started conducting experiments with pea plants to study seven major traits of plants.
From the results of his experiment, he proposed the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment
A study that took 7 years and about 28,000 plants was criticized greatly as biologists at that time held on to the theories of blending inheritance which is now obsolete.
well, it wasn't until 1900, 16 years after his death that three different researchers, each from a different county, published their work which proved that Mendel was right after-all.

2. IGNAZ PHILIPP SEMMELWEIS

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An hungarian Doctor, pioneer of Antiseptic procedures, ''savior of mothers'' . . . sadly, these titles were attributed to him, after his death.
Semmelweis worked in a clinic were the mortality rate was high in comparison to a second clinic in the area due to puerperal fever that was rampant at that time.
Comparing the working conditions of the two hospitals, Semmelweis discovered that the difference between the two clinic was that, while the hospital he worked in involved doctors carrying out Autopsy, the other clinic was for midwives only. And due to the death of his friend who was accidentally poked with a student's scalpel, Semmelweis was able to conclude that the high mortality rate was due to Contaminations from the doctors.
He then made a policy that student doctors wash their hand with chlorinated lime after autopsy work and before examination of patients. The result was a 90% drop in the mortality rate in the clinic.
Unfortunatey, Semmelweis's hypothesis that the only cause of the puerperal fever was uncleanliness on the part of the medical practitioners was both rejected and ridiculed at the same time. Infact, some doctors took offence at the suggestion to wash their hands and Semmelweis was consequently dismissed from the hospital for political reasons, and with harrassment from the medical community in Vienna he was forced to move out to Budapest.
Semmelweis began to write open letters against the doctors of his time, calling them 'irresponsible murderers'. His wife and other friends thought he was running mad and so they took him to Assylum where he died 14 days later (possibly as a result of severe beating from the guards)
Semmelweis's findings where later accepted after Louis Pasteur developed the germ theory of disease which explained all Semmelweis had been saying.

3. JOHANNES KEPLER

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A mathematician and Astronomer, he proposed an heliocentric solar system. Kepler found it difficult to convince people in his era that the sun, and not the earth, was at the centre of the solar system.
This rejection was due to religious beliefs by the Church at that time, and also, partly due to common sense- the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, surely, it goes round the earth.
well, Kepler made further progress on Copernicus's work, but it wasn't until decades after his death that his work formed part of the bases on which Sir Isaac Newton proposed his laws of gravitation.



4. AMEDEO AVOGADRO
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We all probably know Avogadro's law which states that equal volumes of different gases contain an equal number of molecules, provided temperature and pressure are kept constant.
This observation was published by Avogadro while he was working as a physics teacher at the college of Vercelli. As a result, he became the first scientist to realize that elements could exist as molecules.
Avogadro's work, unfortunately, was ignored until 4 years after his death when another Scientist Stanislao Cannizarro presented them at a conference which was called to look into some scientific confusion at that time.
Even after the presentation, it took a decade for scientists to totally agree with it. Now Avogadro is a force to be reckoned with in Chemistry.

Source : http://www.edscienceblog.com/2016/09/4-scienists-whose-works-were-not.html

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That avogrado head tho
e be like arsenal logo

Thanks for the info op. At least I have learnt something meaningful today

kaayposh:
Thanks for the info op. At least I have learnt something meaningful today

You welcome bro.

Please visit www.edscienceblog.com for more meaningful posts.

Khd95:
That avogrado head tho

e be like arsenal logo

Hahaha... Wait to be gunned down.

kaayposh:
Thanks for the info op. At least I have learnt something meaningful today

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All whitey

Is it true that when white men were busy formulating theories and establishing scientific laws, African men were busy bleeping 20 women and birthing 70 children

Demigods666:
Science compliments Satanism.

Hypocrisy of the highest order, you're no different to Boko Haram that says western education is a sin but uses grenades and guns to fight
Dude if science compliment Satanism, better go live on tree and cover you ass with leaves instead of using satanic innovation to browse and comment on nairaland.

Before opening the thread, I knew it will be ROBINHEZ

Number 3 though. Religion will kill people in this life. And they forgot that the bible said "my people perish for lack of knowledge". Most born-agains do not recognize knowledge when they see one. SMH.

Okay

Science compliments Satanism.

In other words;

Spiritual Satanists acknowledge science and believe everything of the occult/supernatural to have a rational scientific explanation.

I'm sorry but your exclusion of Nikola Tesla from this list makes me sad. He originated the concepts for so much of modern technology apart from the works he's known for. He's underappreciated. He did even more than Einstein. In a time when people were just inventing the lightbulb, Tesla was already thinking of Solar Electricity generation.

lol

Great men indeed.

I guess we now appreciate them.

Avogadro's law lo so wipe,
Equal volume of all gases,
Contain the same number of elements
At the standard temperature and pressure

God bless science and scientists around d world who work tirelessly to make our world a better place...plz dont answer d idiot above me.

Demigods666:
Science compliments Satanism.

Really? stop saying what you don't know

What of Dagrin? he invented Kondo

apart from Mendel d rest looks like representative of evil

see d last one like Ozil ancestor

Demigods666:
Science compliments Satanism.

nt true sir.

IGNAZ almost made me cry..!

4. AMEDEO AVOGADRO

Can't forget the song we used to recite then in secondary school for the AVOGADRO law..

Avogadro law lo so wipe... equal volume of the all gases... at the same temperature and pressure... contains the same number of molecule...

Please sing along with me if u remember

Demigods666:
Science compliments Satanism.

typical black man thinking.

sinaj:
nt true sir.

Science Means Satan in Latin.

Khd95:
That avogrado head tho

e be like arsenal logo

Keplers face got me