No one remembers who came in second???

[OhDark30]

Moving on to physics, Clerk Maxwell gets the fame and the name when it comes to electromagnetic theory, but his equations were redeveloped into their simpler and more generally applied format by the relatively unknown Oliver Heaviside.

Though to be fair, Heaviside did get an atmospheric layer named after him (it reflects MF radio waves over the horizon)

[RayMac]

One of the reason for the many losses and innings pitched is because of owner frugality. Pitchers who started games were expected to finish them, so no pitch counts, no middle relief, no closers. If you couldn't finish a game, you weren't major league material.

Pud also pitched in a two man rotation. Tell that to the modern 5 man rotation most teams use.

[Seriously]

3 in 2nd place ?

[Col Angus]

Second place is just the winner of the losers. Of course they are forgotten.

Why does any non-Kenyan run a marathon?????

[hayday]

It is entirely possible that Edmund Hillary was the second person to summit Mt. Everest.

The real question is why anyone bothers to remember Columbus at all.

-hayday

[GlennO]

Can anyone remember who was second?

[MHe225]

I will go a different direction - Nikola Tesla. Thomas Edison gets all the PR but this guy was scary, scary, smart and futuristic. .

Moving on to physics, Clerk Maxwell gets the fame and the name when it comes to electromagnetic theory, but his equations were redeveloped into their simpler and more generally applied format by the relatively (edit: emphasis added) unknown Oliver Heaviside.

Like it that you mention relatively .... how about Lorentz, the father, not the son, who was second to his old man, literally (duh) and figuratively? Lorentz had essentially developed the full relativistic theory that has made Einstein famous, yet when he realized the implications of his computations he assumed he must have made a mistake. He checked and rechecked - it (almost) drove him crazy.
Einstein did the same, gave it some more thought, put groundbreaking context to it and became famous. That was not an overnight process, though and it took very long before his theory / implications were generally accepted.

Back to the sports edition of seconds:

Soccer:
The Dutch have yet to win the big title (world championship)
1974: Germany - Netherlands (2 - 1)
1978: Argentina - Netherlands (3 - 1)
2010: Spain - Netherlands (1 - 0)

Cycling
Joop Zoetemelk finished 6 times 2nd in the Tour de France and did win only once (1980).
Read a little more on Joop here

[Col Angus]

Joop Zoetemelk here

sweet name!


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