[SIZE=“5”][COLOR=“Red”]At last! SDMB Members and Guests will identify the Greatest Scientists Ever![/SIZE][/COLOR]
In last year’s nomination and early eliminations thread Dopers have whittled the List of Great Scientists down to 44 names. We will continue with eliminations, ranking these scientists in order, until only one Greatest Scientist is left standing. Remember to “lobby” for your choice of Greatest Scientist if he or she gets Evict votes too early!
***Each participant has seven votes (although this number may be reduced gradually as the game progresses). *** You can cast six Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote, or five Evicts and two Keeps. The Moderator (me) is not allowed to vote, but will arbitrate the various rules and possibly break ties. A minimum of three Evict votes (or four Evicts if there is a Keep vote) is needed to eliminate a scientist, but the threshold will probably be higher in any given round.
After the first week, vote tallies will be taken at 12:30 pm New York time on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (three elimination rounds per week), but for the first week, to give time for participants to get involved, there will be just two vote tallies: on Tuesday January 9 and Friday January 12, each at 12:30 pm EST. Please send PMs to everyone you know and encourage them to participate! 
Here, in chronological order by birth year, are the 44 Finalists for the title of Greatest Scientist:
300 BC Euclid - math
287 BC Archimedes - math, physics
267 BC Eratosthenes - math, astronomy
1473 Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy
1514 Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences
1564 Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc.
1571 Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math
1607 Fermat, Pierre de - math, optics
1627 Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics
1629 Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics
1632 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy
1642 Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics
1646 Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc.
1706 Franklin, Benjamin - physics, etc.
1707 Euler, Leonhard - math
1707 Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy
1743 Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry
1745 Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics
1777 Gauss, Karl - math, astronomy
1791 Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc.
1809 Darwin, Charles - biology
1813 Bernard, Claude - physiology
1822 Mendel, Gregor - genetics
1822 Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology
1831 Maxwell, James Clerk - physics
1834 Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry
1856 Tesla, Nicolai - physics, invention
1858 Planck, Max - quantum physics
1858 Boas, Franz - anthropology
1867 Curie, Marie - radioactivity
1871 Rutherford, Ernest - nuclear physics, atomic theory, radioactivity.
1878 Meitner, Lise - atomic physics
1879 Einstein, Albert - physics
1885 Bohr, Niels - atomic physics
1889 Hubble, Edwin - astronomy
1901 Pauling, Linus - chemistry
1901 Fermi, Enrico - atomic physics
1901 Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory
1903 Neumann, John von - computer science, etc.
1912 Turing, Alan - computer science, etc.
1914 Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination
1918 Feynman, Richard - physics
1920 Franklin, Rosalind - chemistry, X-ray crystallography
1928 Watson, James - Dna
(A list of 50 Finalists might be nicer — it’s a rounder number — so the Moderator will provide a list of six eliminees in a subsequent post. But only these 44 are eligible going forward.)
If you prefer, here is the same list in alphabetic order:
Archimedes - math, physics
Bernard, Claude - physiology
Boas, Franz - anthropology
Bohr, Niels - atomic physics
Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics
Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy
Curie, Marie - radioactivity
Darwin, Charles - biology
Einstein, Albert - physics
Eratosthenes - math, astronomy
Euclid - math
Euler, Leonhard - math
Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc.
Fermat, Pierre de - math, optics
Fermi, Enrico - atomic physics
Feynman, Richard - physics
Franklin, Benjamin - physics, etc.
Franklin, Rosalind - chemistry, X-ray crystallography
Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc.
Gauss, Karl - math, astronomy
Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory
Hubble, Edwin - astronomy
Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics
Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math
Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy
Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc.
Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy
Maxwell, James Clerk - physics
Meitner, Lise - atomic physics
Mendel, Gregor - genetics
Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry
Neumann, John von - computer science, etc.
Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics
Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology
Pauling, Linus - chemistry
Planck, Max - quantum physics
Rutherford, Ernest - nuclear physics, atomic theory, radioactivity.
Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination
Tesla, Nicolai - physics, invention
Turing, Alan - computer science, etc.
Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences
Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics
Watson, James - Dna
And please do give thanks to the diligent Dopers who’ve already helped with the tedious task of whittling an original list of 136 down to 44 Finalists. 
You can see the 92 scientists already eliminated in this post.
