Synthesis | ||
Depiction of the "evolution of the human molecule" by Canadian communications designer Shawn LaPaix, a spin on English biologist Thomas Huxley’s famous 1863 evolution of man drawing, using the 1952 CPK atomic color scheme: red = oxygen, blue = nitrogen, gray = hydrogen, black = carbon (not shown); for a poster for the 2005 University of British Columbia Art Gallery exhibit “The Human Body in History”, alluding to the idea that human is a body of evolving atoms, formed into the structure of a molecule, that has been chemically synthesized into its current form, over long spans of evolutionary time. |
“Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), and nitrogen (N), 'struggle' for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?”
Pioneer | Date | Contribution | |
Greek philosopher | 450BC | ||
French philosopher | 1789 | | |
German polymath (IQ=230) | 1799 | ||
German author (IQ=175) | 1799 |
Pioneer | Date | Contribution | |
German poet and writer | 1810 | ||
English chemist (IQ=185) | 1813 | ||
French religious writer | 1840 | ||
French composer | 1854 | ||
American sociologist and economist | 1858 | ||
(1790-1864) English economist | 1860 | Quote: “The human 'will' obey laws nearly as certain as those which regulate matter.” [6] | |
German physicist and physician | 1862 | ||
French engineer | c.1869 | “To study humans, it is perhaps even more reserve, his corpse is certainly different from his living, his soul is a being whose morality tells us in existence, but whose philosophy can boast of acquire specific knowledge, since it can be studied in a free state, the revelation can only speak in this regard. But what science and philosophy can and should perhaps only study, is a man indivisible and tangible for us, where the angel and the beast are inseparable, which has a body and ailments, but also passions and faculties, such as intelligence, memory and reason.” | |
French historian | 1869 | ||
Russian writer | 1869 | | |
French civil engineer and meteorologist | c.1870 | In his book On Science, chapter "New Concepts of Matter", made a comparison between the behavior of a cluster of midges and a system of gas molecules. [1] | |
English biologist | 1871 | ||
13. | Austrian physicist | 1872 | |
14. | Scottish mathematical physicist (IQ=210) | 1873 | |
15. | French sociologist and economist | c.1874 | |
16. | German physician and diplomat | 1875 | |
17. | American historian | 1885 | |
18. | German-British philosopher | 1891 | |
19. | French education reformer | 1894 | |
20. | Polish economist and sociologist | c.1894 | |
21. | French-Italian mathematical engineer | 1896 | |
22. | Scottish chemist | 1898 | |
23. | American sociologist | 1899 |
Pioneer | Date | Contribution | |
1. | French economist | 1903 | |
2. | English radical journalist | 1903 | |
3. | French political scientist and sociologist | 1904 | |
4. | American philosopher | 1910 | |
5. | American editor, writer, and business theorist | 1910 | |
6. | English journalist | 1913 | |
7. | English-born American naval architect, marine engineer, chemical engineer, and industrial executive | 1914 | |
8. | French philosopher, chemist, physicist, paleontologist, and priest | c.1916 | |
9. | Romanian-born American psychologist | 1917 | |
10. | American physician | 1919 | |
11. | American zoologist | 1919 | |
12. | Russian-born American sociologist | 1928 | |
13. | American sociologist | 1929 | |
14. | American sociologist | 1929 | |
15. | Austrian economist and political scientist | 1942 | |
16. | Welsh physical chemist | 1947 | Quote: “energy among molecules is like money among men. The rich are few, the poor numerous.” |
17. | Dutch-born American mathematician, theoretical physicist, economist | 1947 | |
18. | American sociologist | 1948 | |
19. | American sociologist | 1949 | Diagrammed Moreno's social atom model using data of sociometric findings of the attraction-repulsion aspects of the relationships surrounding various people |
20. | English physicist Grandson of Charles Darwin | 1952 | |
21. | American economist | 1953 | |
22. | German psychologist and philosopher | 1956 | |
23. | Austrian social economist | 1962 | |
24. | American anthropologist | 1966 | |
25. | American physicist | 1970 | His article "Demography and Thermodynamics" outlines a "molecular sociology", as cited in the 1971 New Scientist article "Molecular Sociology Arrives at Last", in which he explains how social activity is analogous to molecular activity; uses concepts such as adiabatic and entropy in social systems; but cautions his readers, in that although his analogies seem to have validity, he emphatically states that “the conclusion is not that people act like molecules”, but that the goal is to understand ourselves and the world through abstract concepts. |
26. | American sociologist | 1970 | |
27. | Thermodynamicist? | 1971 | Cited several times, in a column of New Scientist magazine (1971, 1972), as as having originated a thermodynamics-based "molecular sociology". |
28. | Australian mechanical engineer | 1971 | Views people as chemical "particles" and men and women as non "identical particles"; his article “The Statistics of Crowd Fluids”, presents his findings of measured movements of college students on a campus and children on a playground, finding that in both cases their movements fit the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, meaning that both velocities of gas particles and the speeds of students follow a Gaussian distribution and that this is explained by "the concept of chemical purity in molecular systems." [13] |
29. | Russian-born Belgian chemist and thermodynamicist | 1971 | |
30. | Austrian astrophysicist | 1975 | |
31. | American sculpture artist | 1977 | 100-foot high statute of 3 human molecules |
32. | French social philosopher and pataphysicist | 1981 | |
33. | American business executive | c.1986 | Conceived the idea that certain workers act as "free electrons", since "they have a strong role in choosing their own orbits." |
34. | American business consultant | 1987 | |
35. | American consultant | 1987 | ( |
36. | American physicist and engineer | 1987 | |
37. | Canadian aboriginal-themed artist | 1988 | |
38. | American philosopher | 1989 | |
39. | French physicist | c.1989 | |
40. | Dutch social mathematician | 1990 | His article/chapter/book “Social Atoms”, modeled people or society some way on the atoms of physics, employing concepts such as “social velocity”, based on ego theory and kinetics. |
41. | American writer-philosopher (IQ=170) | 1991 | |
# | American economics historian | 1992 | Published a objection "Commentary" chapter section response to Alan Nelson's 1992 "Human Molecules" chapter. |
42. | American sociologist | 1992 | Outlined a social molecule theory in which each human is viewed as being in more than one social molecule. |
43. | Canadian cyberspace philosopher | 1994 | |
44. | American philosopher-economist | 1994 | |
45. | French physician | 1995 | Investigated and modeled the human organism as a molecule, assuming there to exist no inherent difference between the mind and the body, and that they are essentially one and the same, a large differentiated structural molecule. [1] |
46. | American economics historian | 1996 | Quote: “the individual choices by rice buyers and factory owners in the economy are like the movement of air molecules in a balloon … economic molecules in the modern world huddle, of course, in markets, which gives another sense in which economics is bourgeois, the townsman’s science.” |
47. | American-born English philosopher | 1998 | |
48. | Venezuelan-born English chemical engineer | 1998 | In his 1998 Chemical Engineering Education article "Human Societies: A Curious Application of Thermodynamics", used a "loose analogy" human molecule model; in his 2006 thermodynamics lectures, at Imperial College London, according to the interview article "A Thermodynamic Personality", by Laura Gallagher, he frequently "compares people to molecules to help his students understand interactions between molecules so to visualize how they behave"; uses these models to explain, e.g., how gettos are formed or how certain people act as "surfactant molecules" |
49. | American psychologist and emotional intelligence theorist | 1998 | |
50. | American newage spiritual philosopher | 1999 | |
51. | American ecological economist | 1999 | |
52. | American ecological economist | 1999 | |
53. | American writer | 1999 | Quote: “People are like particles, they behave in groups as if they were molecules in a test-tube.” |
Pioneer | Date | Contribution | |
1. | American physicist (IQ=190) | c.2000 | |
2. | American limnologist | 2000 | H375,000,000 O132,000,000 C85,700,000 N6,430,000 Ca1,500,000 P1,020,000 S206,000 Na183,000 K177,000 Cl127,000 Mg40,000 Si38,600 Fe2,680 Zn2,110 Cu76 I14 Mn13 F13 Cr7 Se4 Mo3 Co1 Teaches subject at the University of Minnesota. |
3. | American limnologist | 2000 | |
Portuguese politician and economist | 2001 | ||
4. | American computational chemist | 2001 | |
5. | American Germanic studies professor | 2001 | In his article “Goethe’s Intensified Border”, in which he draws out nine reactions likely used by Goethe in his Elective Affinities, he defines the illicit child, created out of the double elective affinity reaction AC + BD → AC + BD + P, as a “precipitate” (P), with the other molecular entities being: Charlotte (A), Eduard (B), Captain (C), and Ottilie (D). |
6. | English physicist | 2001 | |
7. | American screenwriter | 2001 | |
8. | American screenwriter | 2001 | |
9. | American writer | 2001 | |
10. | American chemical engineer, electrical engineer, and thermodynamicist | 2002 | H2.5E9 O9.7E8 C4.9E8 N4.7E7 P9.0E6 Ca8.9E6 K2.0E6 Na1.9E6 S1.6E6 Cl1.3E6 Mg3.0E5 Fe5.5E4 F5.4E4 Zn1.2E4 Si9.1E3 Cu1.2E3 B7.1E2 Cr98 Mn93 Ni87 Se65 Sn64 I60 Mo19 Co17 V Began making evolution tables in 2005; wrote the first chapter on the human molecule in 2007; wrote the first booklet on the history of the human molecule, The Human Molecule, in 2008. |
11. | 2002 | "This book looks at the similarities existing between two entities. If we understand more of each entity there may be clues to hold new scientific information leading to new research." The book contains ninety-eight chemical aphorisms. | |
12. | English chemist and physicist | 2003 | “To develop a physics of society, we must take a bold step that some might regret as a leap of faith and others as preposterous idealization. You may have guessed it already: particles become people. To make that bold step a little easier, I shall introduce a stepping-stone that will bring life into the picture before we have to worry about such things as free will.” This book, which sparked heated responses, e.g. Fuller (below), outlines a human particle themed social physics that: “treats people as though they were just so much insensate matter (a contentious business), which is why we shall approach the physics-based modeling of society with cautious steps, showing how life (I am tempted to say ‘mere life’) need not in itself present a boundary to the application of statistical physics; the human physics theories of Thomas Hobbes, Lewis Mumford, Emyr Hughes, Ludwig Boltzmann, James Maxwell, etc. |
13. | American air force intelligence officer and trial attorney | 2004 | |
14. | American quantum physicist | 2005 | |
15. | Canadian communications designer | 2005 | |
16. | American philosopher and sociologist | 2005 | |
17. | Russian-born American science fiction writer | 2005 | Dialog: “Talk is cheap. Talk is safe. Let’s talk about love. Lust flares and dims. Relationships start and end. Love is or isn’t. Love is a person, a separate entity with its own body, metabolism, and dreams. Love is two human molecules bound to make a third.” |
18. | American creative advertising director | 2006 | The Human Element, the “missing element” of the periodic table, depicting visceral images of people, many from third world countries, with the element symbol box, symbol Hu, and atomic number 7E+9, overlaid on the picture, in aims to convey the message that the human is a type of chemical element that is somehow missing from the standard chemical periodic table, but one that should be the focus of beneficial-to-humanity chemical applications. |
19. | American physical chemist | 2006 | |
20. | Russian-born American language studies scholar | 2006 | ( |
21. | Russian physical chemist | 2006 | |
22. | English biological scientist | 2006 | |
23. | 2006 | Quote: “accumulated knowledge suggests that humans are billions of highly evolved, overgrown super-molecules (or ‘intensely conscious mice’?) that swarm in ever larger numbers on a piece of rock that wobbles, spins, revolves, and soars into nothingness at break-neck speed with an agitated, burning furnace in its interior.” | |
24. | American philosopher-photographer | 2006 | |
25. | American chemical engineer | 2006 | |
26. | American physicist | 2007 | “We should think of people as if they were atoms or molecules.” Buchanan has chapters such as the adaptive atom, the imitating atom, the cooperative atom; builds on Thomas Schelling's 1971 Empedocles-style, oil and water, physics theory of racial separation; and attempts to outline a social physics that "in no way conflicts with the existence of individual free will." |
27. | Russian bioelectrochemist | 2007 | Quote: “the economy of mankind is a very large and extremely complicated system [and] people are the 'molecules' of which it consists”; on this view outlined an economic thermodynamics theory. |
28. | Russian biometrist | 2007 | ( |
29. | American illustration artist | 2009 | |
30. | Indian chemist and business management theorist | 2009 | |
31. | American geological thermodynamicist | 2009 | |
32. | English thermal physicist and nanoscientist | 2009 | ( |
33. | American consultant and business executive | 2009 | ( |
34. | American physical chemist | 2009 | In his Wealth, Energy, and Human Values, argues that the socioeconomic operations of society are “analogous to the scientific concepts and principles of molecular reactivity”; argues that the functional steps of societal processes and the related energy considerations occur in the same manner as the mechanisms of net chemical reactions (initial state to final state); that the principles of molecular events are also applicable to the social, economic, and political processes of civilizations; that the dynamics that drive civilization are based on thermodynamics. |
Spanish sociologist | 2009 | In his Technology and Social Complexity, attempts to argue that Erwin Schrodinger’s 1944 statistical thermodynamics explanation of life, in some way, does not apply correctly to people viewed as ‘social atoms’ or ‘social molecules’ so as to make deterministic laws for society, on the argument that there are not enough people in a given society “to make stochastic or thermodynamics behavior negligible.” [14] | |
35. | Romanian electronic music producer | 2010 | |
36. | Indian business executive | 2010 | |
37. | Brazilian psychologist and writer | 2010 | |
38. | American religious studies scholar and ex-minster | 2010 | |
39. | American writer | 2010 | |