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who were the greatest scientist/poets?

My votes go to Oppenheimer, who read the Bhagavad Gita in its original Sanskrit, and opened the Atomic Age with deep poetic symbolism (Trinity from John Dunne's Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for example.)

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Omar Khayyam who defined the Persian calendar for a millennium and linked algebra and geometry together in fundamental ways, while writing enough quatrains to form the Rubáiyát.

Very open if others have suggestions!

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Roger H 1y ago

Though many of Omar Khayyam's quatrains may not come from him - a lesson on how history and literature intersect.

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