>>14179358>implying Tesla and Perelman are in any way comparableFuck Tesla. Tesla wasn't even a scientist, he was an engineer, and for some reason normies are obsessed with him and always seem to think he was some sort of scientist of physicist, but he's basically irrelevant in the world of modern math or science.
But if you're interested in great thinkers in biology, I would obviously start with Aristotle. In the beginning of modern biology, we have Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace, and Thomas Huxley.
In the 20th century, John Maynard Smith, J B S Haldane, Ronald Fischer, Sewall Right, and Alan Turing (yes the same Turing from computer science and logic - he did some interesting work on diffusion and pattern formation in biology as well).
More recently, in the 21st century, I would say Stuart Kauffman, Eors Szathmary, and Robert Rosen (although Rosen has not gotten as much attention as he should).
That really just covers evolutionary biology and mathematical biology, although that's also probably where the cleverest biologists tend to work. Neuroscience and cognitive science are also pretty big-brained, but I'm not as familiar with any great theorists in the world of neuroscience, unless you are counting linguists and philosophers of mind, like Noam Chomsky.
