{"id":229,"date":"2006-05-04T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T09:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/04\/mount-nounmore\/"},"modified":"2006-05-04T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T09:55:51","slug":"mount-nounmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/04\/mount-nounmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Noun-More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since people have asked about the outcome of the Mike and Mike &#8220;Mount Sportsmore&#8221; thing that kicked off <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/einstein_darwin_newton_and.php\">yesterday&#8217;s post about iconic scientists<\/a>, I made it a point to catch their final list today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Muhammed Ali<\/li>\n<li>Babe Ruth<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Wayne Gretzky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They specifically put Jackie Robinson off in a special category of his own (&#8220;looking down from above&#8221;). Gretzky was apaprently the choice in a fan vote, beating out Secretariat, Jesse Owens, and Jim Brown. No mention of Pele at all, as far as I could tell.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over in the &#8220;Mount Rushmore of Science&#8221; thread, the nomination geenrating the most controversy is Sigmund Freud. Who, I have to say, is probably a pretty good choice&#8211; he&#8217;s got almost the same kind of recognizability as Einstein, he&#8217;s not any nuttier than Newton, and he did more or less create a whole field out of nothing. The real problem is, was what he was doing good science?<\/p>\n<p>Other people generating significant comment include Gauss and Aristotle. There&#8217;s some demand for a representative from the field of medicine (which remains as much art as science&#8230;), but no real consensus on a nominee. Best comment so far goes to Aaron M, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t we have a mountain with Feynman <i>and<\/i> Pel\u00c3\u00a9?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Have a suggestion? Go <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/einstein_darwin_newton_and.php#commentsArea\">leave a comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since people have asked about the outcome of the Mike and Mike &#8220;Mount Sportsmore&#8221; thing that kicked off yesterday&#8217;s post about iconic scientists, I made it a point to catch their final list today: Muhammed Ali Babe Ruth Michael Jordan Wayne Gretzky They specifically put Jackie Robinson off in a special category of his own&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/04\/mount-nounmore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mount Noun-More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}