Imagine a world without television,without cars,sterios or even electricity.Now imagine of the world in futuristic sci-fi thrillers with intelligent computers,robots,hovercrafts and where voicecommand is used on household appliencies.In your honest opinion in which would you rather live?Most of us can hardly imagine a world without computers yet exeedingly few of us bother to learn exactly how it all came to be......by science. Of all the creations of the human mind none is more alive and influencial on man's daily life than science.Yet it is tHis very same invaluable aspect of our lives that we continue to treat as distant and impersonal and even go as far as to label it's heros insane....the often portrayed "Mad Scientist" routine.Yet despite the continual caricature and lack of appreciation the world is never short of great minds in this fields who dedicate their lives to solving the mysteries of nature and pushing the frontier of mankind's knowledge further and further away often at their own expense.This is a tribute to all those great men and women who have given so much for the course of science |