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Callmecrazy

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22. I would agree...

Reply to hunter (Reply #21)

Tue Nov 4, 2014, 05:30 PM

Nov 2014

He first described electromagnetism as a wave function.
I would also put Michael Faraday up there. An apprentice bookbinder with only an elementary education, he devised the first electric motor. When asked by TPTB about what he could do with his invention he stated," I don't know but I'm sure you'll find a way to tax it."

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