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William Whewell
One of the first Individuals that used crowdsourcing experimentation. This was used in his "Great Tide Experiment", his vision was to see how tides of the ocean worked around the world. He organized 650 volunteers from all over Europe and the Americas with a common goal of predicting local tide by understanding global tides. these 650 volunteers would take observations every 15 minutes of tide changes over 2 weeks generating over 1 million data points. Remember this was 1835. -
Niels Bohr
The atomic understanding as we know it is largely contributed to Niels Bohr. The planetary model, one we still use today, was his discovery of the atomic structure. This being said there are many different ideas about how electrons move around a nucleus, but this was one of the beginnings of quantum theory of atomic structure. These scientific theories are what push us in to the next age of scientific breakthrough.
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Karl Popper's Science Vs. Pseudoscience
The understanding of how the scientific mind and scientific hypothesis work together to form a scientific theory. This idea of science vs. pseudoscience was the idea that scientist should try to falsify their hypothesis's rather than prove them, the idea that if you are trying to prove your own theory and not disprove it, you will always find a reason that your way of thinking is the correct way of thinking. Only by attempting to disprove the hypothesis would you be able to prove it. -
Alfred North Whitehead
The father of Process Philosophy. This process philosophy was the world view that focused on change other than unchanging reality. In other words, the idea that we aren't focusing on fixed goals but the idea that your goals will change, and the original goal will never be accomplished. this is the view that nothing is ever completely known, our understanding is constantly changing.