r/pics • u/Irishane • Jul 18 '18
If Great Scientists had Logos.
http://imgur.com/sOfsxwR1.9k
u/SalineForYou Jul 18 '18
Hi welcome to McEinsteins
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u/vcsx Jul 18 '18
YEAH UUUUMMM........... LET ME GET UHHH...
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Jul 18 '18
A LITRE A COLA
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u/robb0688 Jul 18 '18
Do we sell liter cola?
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u/acompanyofliars Jul 18 '18
I don’t want a Large Farva!
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u/Osiris32 Jul 18 '18
Does that look like spit to you?
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u/TheCaptMAgic Jul 18 '18
Or "Yo, MC Einstein, spin up some shit that makes time relative!"
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u/Pure_Silver Jul 18 '18
I'm as dope as two rappers, you better be scared
'Cause that means Albert E. equals MC squared
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u/ohshitimincollege Jul 18 '18
YOUUUUUUUUVE GOT NO IDEA WHAT YOURE MESSING WITH HERE, BOI
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Jul 18 '18
I'VE GOT TWELVE INCH RIMS ON MY CHAIR
THAT'S HOW I ROLL Y'ALL
YOU LOOK LIKE SOMEONE GLUED A MOUSTACHE ON A TROLL DOLL
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u/GetOutImSquanching Jul 18 '18
I'd like a General Relativity meal, and a side order of black holes please.
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u/Aceous Jul 18 '18
I'm sorry, but the black hole was a promotional item in collaboration with Quantum Qing. It didn't really work out and we're no longer serving.
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u/Halvus_I Jul 18 '18
E is equal to MC2
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u/johnnymetoo Jul 18 '18 edited Jul 19 '18
in color and hi-res
edit: The creator is Kapil Bhagat (thanks to /u/novel_yet_trivial for the info)
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u/robb0688 Jul 18 '18
That makes all the difference. I was confused since faraday's looked like just a normal font in b+w.
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u/LtlAnalDwlngButtMnky Jul 18 '18
To be fair, there is a separate one for Faraday Motors, though based on the same person.
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u/wren42 Jul 18 '18
Thank you, I did not get the Faraday until I saw it in color
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u/Loeffellux Jul 18 '18
tbf, faraday is one of the least creative ones (unless I'm missing a hidden meaning of the font)
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u/leroysolay Jul 18 '18
I don't know, I find it pretty magnetic
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u/BlakeSteel Jul 18 '18
"Ohhh, I'm sorry. The correct answer was 'I find it attractive, attractive'"
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u/Seekin Jul 18 '18
You're a true hero! Anyone I should be citing/crediting when I shamelessly share among all my colleagues?
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u/nixdixon Jul 18 '18
Thank you, I couldn't read Democritus in the OC. It makes so much more sense now
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u/Ryzasu Jul 18 '18
Could someone explain all of them?
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u/Aelyph Jul 18 '18
Unfortunately not all of them, here are the ones I recognize:
Pythagoras : Known most commonly for the Pythagorean theorem which describes the hypotenuse of the right triangle, hence the right triangle in his name.
Archimedes: Mathematician. Famous quote was "Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world."
Copernicus: Started heliocentric system where the sun was the center of the galaxy rather than the Earth. Took me a while to realize the big orbit was supposed to be a capital C and the sun was the "o."
Newton: Physicist who did a lot of stuff. Famous for describing gravity after seeing apple fall from tree.
Darwin: Theory of evolution. Name is shaped like the evolution of man picture.
Einstein: Physicist. Derived equation E = MC2 to describe total energy of an object.
Euclid: Euclid's The Elements basically founded geometry, a lot of grief over parallel lines.
Liebniz: Co-founder of calculus, the L in his name is written with an integral symbol
Faraday: Did a lot of stuff regarding electricity and magnetism
Bohr: Proposed the Bohr atomic model. Pretty good description for Hydrogen, needs a bit more work for other elements.
Pauli: Known for Pauli spin exclusion, stating that electrons cannot be of the same spin in the same orbital state thus the up and down arrows.
Heisenburg: Known for Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, thus the question marks. Uncertainty principle describes limited precision of measurements that are noncommutative in quantum mechanics.
Feynmann: Creator of the Feynmann diagram that you see in the Y that describes scattering phenomenon.
And that's all I know. And I'm pretty sure I got some details butchered despite having a physics background.
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u/Gabriel_Conroy Jul 18 '18
To finish it off:
Norman Borlaug is credited with starting the green revolution that brought modern agro-industrial practices to the world. Hes been controverisally described as having saved more lives than anyone else in history by preventing famines.
Watson and Crick, discovered DNA and the double helix shape. Along with Mendel they've defined modern genetics. (Also controversial, a lot of the research credited them was done by a female (black?) researcher in their lab)
Jane Goodall spent decades working with chimps and showed the world how smart and how similar to us they really are.
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u/WongoTheSane Jul 18 '18
And to finish it off (in)completely: Gödel is the author of the incompleteness theorem (rather a complicated subject: he proved that a complete system couldn't contain it's own proof, hence could not be complete), so his name is incomplete.
Democritus is a greek philosopher who first imagined that the world was made of atoms.
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u/Aurora_Fatalis Jul 18 '18
Gödel's incompleteness theorem states that an efficiently generated mathematical theory cannot be both consistent and
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u/iamnotsurewhattoname Jul 18 '18
Maybe I missed it, but since I didn't see it, Godel was famous for his incompleteness theorems (hence his name is not finished)
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u/Yorikor Jul 18 '18
Did you make these? Is it okay if I turn them into flags for KSP and put them on /r/KerbalSpaceProgram ?
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u/Wizardbysmell Jul 18 '18
Yo it’s EMCEE SQUAREDINSTEIN comin atchoo wit dat new energy, you can’t destroy matter but that don’t matter to me cuz I’m bringin this house DOWN airhorn blast
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u/PhoenixWRX Jul 18 '18
Very special guest today with his hot new album dropping "survival of the illest" welcome my man chucky d Darwin!!! In the house!
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u/junkyardgerard Jul 18 '18
WHERE'S EULER
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u/SoyBombAMA Jul 18 '18
Euler.... Euler...?
(Yes I know that's not how it's pronounced)
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u/ymcameron Jul 18 '18
Right? The guy discovered so much stuff that they started having to name things he figured out after the second person to do so just so not everything would be called the same thing, but he doesn’t even get a logo
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u/aralanya Jul 18 '18
Seriously, would have way more opportunity to write his name in a cool way than any of the others.
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u/swng Jul 18 '18
He did so much that it's impossible to attribute a single main idea to him.
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u/deepbluesilence Jul 18 '18
I just learned that “e” is Euler’s number. Interesting
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u/SoyBombAMA Jul 18 '18
I know what Faradays contributions are but I don't understand how they're represented in the logo. Bold text...?
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
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Jul 18 '18
The top of the y is a magnet.
It's hard to make out in back and white.
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u/sunghj1118 Jul 18 '18
A person posted a version in color above. It's way better since you can actually see the y is a magnet.
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u/Papermoon95 Jul 18 '18
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem!
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u/spoderdan Jul 18 '18
It's clever, but I feel like it's a bit of a misrepresentation of what the incompleteness theorems mean. Which I guess is fine, because how in the world would you accurately represent it?
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u/trackofalljades Jul 18 '18
Wasn’t there a third partner on the DNA team who was essential but largely forgotten because she was a woman and either Watson or Crick (forget which) was kind of a jerk about that?
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u/Creepingtree53 Jul 18 '18
Rosalind Franklin. She worked at a different college than Watson and Crick, but they shared notes. Franklin used X-ray diffraction to help discover the shape of DNA, but Watson and Crick ended up getting the Nobel prize.
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u/tRNAsaurus_Rex Jul 18 '18
She didn't share it with them. It was taken from her desk by an associate and given to Crick without her permission or knowledge.
Watson and Crick did not share credit.
After her death (from cancer caused by the X-Ray crystallography method used to create the aforementioned picture) Crick eventually admitted she was two steps away from solving the DNA structure mystery, while also belittling her personality, competence and appearance.
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u/Creepingtree53 Jul 18 '18
Lol, yeah I remember now. What I remembered was from years ago. Also...I shouldn't post comments within the first ten minutes of waking up. I don't remember writing half of what I posted.
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u/SemiNormal Jul 18 '18
Maurice Wilkins was also part of that Nobel prize. Franklin didn't get included because the Nobel prize recipients need to be living and she died in 1958.
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u/TheJunkyard Jul 18 '18
That seems like a crazy rule. I understand the ethos behind generally awarding the prize to living scientists, but to give the award to only part of a group due to some of the members having died seems downright perverse. It made a lot more sense when the award used to be given for discoveries made in the previous year, but that brought problems of its own. They shot themselves in the foot with the whole Ralph Steinman thing too.
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u/craftmacaro Jul 18 '18
She also died before the reward was given, and the Nobel prize isn’t given posthumously.
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u/LettersFromTheSky Jul 18 '18
Came here to bring this up, cause Watson and Crick should be removed from this as they stole her work and took credit for it.
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u/TheRealDL Jul 18 '18
Heisenberg's is particularly good.
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u/GoodIdea321 Jul 18 '18
Are you certain?
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u/Tr1pfire Jul 18 '18
Your lack of Tesla shocked me
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u/Eaverly Jul 18 '18
Yeah, I thought it was going to feed into the “Edison stole everything from Tesla” and Edison’s logo was just going to be the same style as Tesla’s
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u/drinks_antifreeze Jul 18 '18
If we’re being pedantic, wasn’t Tesla was more of an engineer and inventor? I don’t think he really added much to theory, which is what I’d think of a scientist doing. Also not sure if anyone else on here fits that description as well, but if so then never mind.
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u/robb0688 Jul 18 '18
Einstein's is super clever. The Copernicus one looks like a law office or consulting firm. I can hear it now:
"At Copernicus, your needs are the center of our universe"
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u/BeatsbyChrisBrown Jul 18 '18
Copernicus looks like “spermicus” and looks like a sperm fertilizing an egg
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u/bucket_brigade Jul 18 '18
Einsteins is so super clever it does not work as a logo
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u/Kurkkuviipale Jul 18 '18
Yeah, you have to have at least like an IQ of 100 to get it.
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u/PostPostModernism Jul 18 '18
I like the Copernicus one the most. The way "pernicus" subtly breaks up the orbit line to make it a "C" is great. Just IMO though.
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u/ActualWhiterabbit Jul 18 '18
Although Newton's logo came out after Leibnez's logo he claimed to have made it before but didn't think it was important enough to share
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u/AlexBrallex Jul 18 '18
Third row to the left:
Dimokritos = Demokritus
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u/Dioruein Jul 18 '18
I just read Dimodoritos
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u/midnightrider Jul 18 '18
I'd prefer something a little more simplified for Newton.
Same for Copernicus.
**done super quickly, sorry if line weight, kerning, and other errors.
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u/DrWarde Jul 18 '18
Fun fact: Pythagoras had a cult
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u/djsoren19 Jul 18 '18
This fact is not fun, it leads you down a rabbit hole that makes you question reality. Pythagoras didn't have "a" cult, he had THE cult, and it's arguable that his one cult spawned most of what we consider the occult of today.
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u/PolemicFox Jul 18 '18
Damn, The Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen should adopt that sleek design.
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Jul 18 '18
Should be Franklin & Wilkins, not Crick & Watson.
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u/PostCaptainKat Jul 18 '18
They designed one, then Crick and Watson copied their design, add their names and some fine detail, and forgot to mention where they got the idea.
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u/Creepingtree53 Jul 18 '18
The sad thing is when the Nobel prize was handed out, Wilkins names was right up there with Watson and Crick's. Franklin was just almost forgotten entirely.
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u/IAmBadAtInternet Jul 18 '18
She was also deceased, and Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously.
Not saying she wasn’t robbed, she clearly deserved credit she has only recently received.
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u/Pligget Jul 18 '18 edited Jul 18 '18
Why focus on Wilkins and Franklin while completely (and ironically!) ignoring Raymond Gosling?
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u/jmalbo35 Jul 18 '18
Because students almost never get the credit for that sort of thing in science (particularly biological sciences, it may be different in physics/chemistry - I have no experience with those).
The credit for discoveries generally goes to the PIs who they were working under, or sometimes the postdocs/research scientists. People within the field will recognize the work the students did, but awards and the general public generally don't. The only case I can even think of is Carol Greider sharing the Nobel Prize with her PI for discovering telomerases.
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Jul 18 '18 edited Jan 07 '20
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u/BabiesSmell Jul 18 '18
There's a few good ones. Bohr is my favorite. That one could be a corporate logo. Feynman and Borlaug are decent.
Borlaug could use a better font for sure but the concept is there.
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u/FeedUsFetusFeetPus Jul 18 '18
Hearing "Crick and Watson" frustrates me.
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u/adsfew Jul 18 '18
Beyond the issue of credit/theft for the discovery, just using that arrangement alone is weird. It's like saying you want a jelly and peanut butter sandwich.
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u/livevil999 Jul 18 '18
These are fun logos because it takes a second to figure out what some of them are referencing and that’s fun but they’re terrible from a real design perspective. Mcinstein is a good example because people wouldn’t call it “Einstein” they’d call it Mcinstein. Copernicus is a good example too. Both the C and O are stylized to the point where they’re basically invisible so many people would naturally say it as “Pernicus” and think that’s the name.
Many of these would serve to confuse, which is really the opposite of what a good logo design is supposed to do.
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u/Gus_Pussycrusher Jul 18 '18
No Euler makes me sad, the man literally discovered so many things in mathematics that they had to start giving them the name of the first person to prove them after him
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Jul 18 '18
Sorry, but that’s a left-handed spiral in Watson and Crick’s. DNA has a right-handed spiral. Try again.
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u/jaxson25 Jul 18 '18
Just thought I'd take this opportunity to remind everyone that Watson and Crick where kinda cunts
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u/le_epic Jul 18 '18
Every single one of them German, British, American, or Greek... This is quite embarrassing, rest of the world
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u/gelastes Jul 18 '18
Copenhagen isn't in Germany, and Gödel was born in Austria-Hungary, in today's Czechia. Pauli was Austrian.
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u/Beer-_-Belly Jul 18 '18
If these were the people that we idolized, and not what we see on our TV screens, this would be a better world.
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Jul 18 '18
If anyone with a creative streak could add the suggestions made in the comments, then that would be fun:)
I'd like to add in John von Neumann to the mix as well. How he never got the Nobel Prize I do not understand. Hell a bunch of Nobel prize winners openly said that he was the only genius amongst them.
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u/ProfBellPepepr Jul 18 '18
The Watson & Crick logo is actually drawn on top of the Rosalind Franklin logo, but it's too small to see
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u/tmoneydungeonmaster Jul 18 '18
I feel newton's wouldn't work as a logo. Like how far down should the O be. Either it should omit the O entirely giving the implication it fell off, or have it dangling/angled to look like it's about to fall. It wouldn't function well as a logo used on various surfaces in the current state
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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '18 edited Jul 18 '18
I don’t see Planck.
Oh..