A lot of news these days comes from, or is about, Twitter. Entertainment magazines and shows seem to be entirely dependant on celebrity Tweets, like those fish that feed on the random things that fall out of a sharks mouth.
It's not all random utterances and spats though. Time magazine recently ran an article about the most intelligent celebrities on Twitter. And those of us in the science field are regularly encouraged to Tweet about our research.
But what if these two approaches were combined? What if famous scientists were on Twitter, at the time of their greatest discoveries? Obviously the vast majority of celebrated scientific discoveries occurred before Twitter even existed. But this is the internet, where nothing is impossible!
(Explanatory links in the titles, for those not familiar with the references)
Pythagoras
Andreas Vesalius
Tycho Brahe
Rosalind Franklin
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
Erwin Schrödinger
Jonas Salk
Phineas Gage
Florence Nightingale
Ivan Pavlov
Alan Turing
Dean Burnett is, quite obviously, on Twitter, @garwboy