Galileo achieved his great fame as the father of modern science, often promise women at local taverns he would name stars and planets after them. The mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and all-around know-it-all made waves when he supported the theories of nut job Nicolaus Copernicus, claiming the Earth revolved around the Sun rather than the other way around. The Catholic Church charged Galileo with heresy for his beliefs, but let him off easy cause of his age, punished with house arrest for the remainder of his life. But Galileo had the last laugh. Almost 350 years later, Pope John Paul II admitted Galileo might have been right.