What do you consider is the greatest scientific discovery that had benefited this planet the most?

What was his name if you can add that information?

Electricity. The name of the dude that discovered it is right on the tip of my tongue.....

I personally feel that Gutenberg's printing press was the most significant, in terms of making information available to a much larger audience.

Beer, some caveman thousands of years ago

The control of fire.

Unknown.

Duct Tape

Its utility is limited only by your imagination. I couldn't conceive of a world without it.

Dr Frankenstein....harnessing the electricity in Lightning.

And whoever the photovoltaic cell, (solar panels) dude was....

That is not a discovery it was an invention. What do you think he found a printing press hidden in some cave somewhere?

I think the discovery that washing your hands(especially before performing surgery) kills deadly germs and viruses.

scientists discover things that have always existed

engineers invent things that have never existed

the greatest discovery is cold fusion (we just haven't discovered it yet)

the greatest invention was the integrated circuit

just my opinion

The Many uses...

I would say Darwin's way of thinking. It may not be apparent now, but I think that it will be increasingly a borrow over zone for physics in the future. It helps us think about the whole picture, about why change can exist in nature, and by what mechanism it acts. This applies to things like economy and industry, but also how we will live in the future. It marks a change in scientific thought, one from where are systems are stationary and do not change in time, as perhaps our ancestors thought when they were told that there population and way of life has been about the same, or not exponentailly growing. So it is a discovery of change with time, and this may not seem relevant to taday, for what do one care about whether today will behave like tomorrow, and that like the next? Does it matter that physical time may produce change in laws or scientific systems? A lot of people would say no. But I think that the affect of developing this change into other areas of life will have a lasting, if currently unknown, affect.

I took this question as an invention, becuase I find the word discovery so mundane, when in fact most scientific work or developed every day thinking is in the realm of imaginative and creative ideas.

i think its wheel.. nd pulleys. no machine could be developed without them. ;)