# Greatest Scientists: Elimination Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 5, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909 "2018-01-05T11:12:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/21 "2018-01-12T19:49:35Z")
\*\*Be Gone: \*\* Fermat, Pierre de Feynman, Richard Hubble, Edwin Neumann, John von Leibnitz, Gottfried Mendel, Gregor I’ll save my save for later. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/22 "2018-01-13T00:42:07Z")
Blood! More blood! Edwin Hubble Christiaan Huygens Antoine van Leeuwenhoek Nicola Tesla Gregor Mendel Richard Feynmann ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/23 "2018-01-13T14:07:35Z")
Eliminate: Fermat Feynman Huygens Neumann Pauling Keep: Eratosthenes Leeuwenhoek ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/24 "2018-01-13T14:37:08Z")
Eliminate: Fermi, Enrico Franklin, Ben Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van Leibnitz Mendel, Gregor Tesla ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/25 "2018-01-15T09:49:47Z")
Current votes: Feynman, Richard : 4 Neumann, John von : 4 Fermat, Pierre de : 3 Hubble, Edwin : 3 Leibnitz, Gottfried : 3 Mendel, Gregor : 3 Pauling, Linus : 3 Tesla, Nicolai : 3 Franklin, Benjamin : 2 Huygens, Christiaan : 2 Fermi, Enrico : 1 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie v. : 2-1 Eratosthenes : 1-1 In the absence of any new votes, the first two listed above will be Evicted. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/26 "2018-01-15T13:20:18Z")
Evict: Fermat, Pierre de Hubble, Edwin Leibnitz, Gottfried Mendel, Gregor Pauling, Linus Eratosthenes ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/27 "2018-01-15T15:37:42Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > In the absence of any new votes, the first two listed above will be Evicted. How about evicting those on 3 votes as well? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/28 "2018-01-15T16:05:01Z")
I’m not sure Players are aware that **I retain old votes and count them, unless superseded with a new order from that Player.** For example, **Prof. Pepperwinkle** had votes on Feynman and von Neumann in the previous round and _I included those “old” votes_ in the intermediate count I gave in post #25. He has just posted new votes with those names _deleted_. If he did this because those are “goners” anyway, _he’s mistaken_ — their vote counts just dropped to 3. > [@Quartz](#): > > How about evicting those on 3 votes as well? I have no firm rule for the Eviction threshold, and will try to tune it, as we go, according to pace and participation. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/29 "2018-01-15T19:32:19Z")
(I’ve received confirmation from the **Professor**.) Final vote counts for the round are Fermat, Pierre de : 4 Leibnitz, Gottfried : 4 Mendel, Gregor : 4 Feynman, Richard : 3 Hubble, Edwin : 3 Neumann, John von : 3 Pauling, Linus : 3 Tesla, Nicolai : 3 Franklin, Benjamin : 2 Huygens, Christiaan : 2 Fermi, Enrico : 1 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie v. : 2-1 Eratosthenes : 1-1 Fermat, Leibnitz, and Mendel are gone. **Round Three is over. Round Four will end about 12:30 pm EST on Wednesday, January 17. For Round Four, again you may cast six Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote, or five Evicts and two Keeps.** Thirty-seven Scientists remain in contention: 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 1627 Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics 1629 Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics 1632 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy 1642 Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics 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 1822 Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology 1831 Maxwell, James Clerk - physics 1834 Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry 1856 Tesla, Nicolai - physics, invention 1858 Planck, Max - quantum physics 1867 Curie, Marie - radioactivity 1871 Rutherford, Ernest - nuclear physics, atomic theory, radioactivity. 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 1928 Watson, James - Dna Top Fifty Scientists who have already been Eliminated: 38. Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. 39. Mendel, Gregor - genetics 40. Fermat, Pierre de - math, optics 41. Franklin, Rosalind - chemistry, X-ray crystallography 42. Boas, Franz - anthropology 43. Bernard, Claude - physiology 44. Meitner, Lise - atomic physics 45. Aristotle - philosophy, geology, biology, etc. 46. Liebig, Justus von - organic chemistry 47. Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham - physics, etc. 48. Boltzmann, Ludwig - thermodynamics 49. Lyell, Charles - geology 50. Dirac, Paul - physics ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/30 "2018-01-15T20:24:52Z")
Evict: Feynman, Richard Neumann, John von Pauling, Linus Mendeleev, Dmitri Lavoisiere, Antoine Eratosthenes ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/31 "2018-01-15T21:23:12Z")
Eliminate: Feynman Huygens Neumann Pauling Tesla Keep: Leeuwenhoek Mendeleev Getting tougher and tougher to cut – I’d have spared Tesla from eviction and retained Eratosthenes as a “save” had I had a 4/3 option. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/32 "2018-01-17T06:11:00Z")
With less than 12 hours to go, the vote counts are Feynman, Richard : 4 Neumann, John von : 4 Tesla, Nicolai : 4 Pauling, Linus : 3 Franklin, Benjamin : 2 Hubble, Edwin : 2 Huygens, Christiaan : 2 Fermi, Enrico : 1 Lavoisier, Antoine : 1 Mendeleev, Dmitri : 1 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie v. : 2-1 Eratosthenes : 1-1 Things are getting bloody! Last round two key inventors of the infinitesimal calculus were evicted along with the man who discovered how Darwinian evolution was possible. This round we’re en route to eliminating two of the very greatest geniuses born in the 20th century, along with a man who in popular surveys is often called “greatest scientist (or geek) ever.” ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/33 "2018-01-17T07:05:09Z")
Oops! :o I failed to record Keep votes properly. Two lines in the vote summary need correction: Mendeleev, Dmitri : 1-1 Eratosthenes : 1 (This doesn’t affect the vote leaders.) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/34 "2018-01-17T13:11:03Z")
**Eliminate** : Feynman Neumann Turing Hubble Pauling Leeuwenhoek **Keep** : Tesla It is nearly time for \*\*Tesla \*\*to depart, but not yet. He still added more to science and in leaps and bounds ahead of some of the the others still on the list. He may not be one of the all time greatest, but he deserves the next circle. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/35 "2018-01-17T17:27:43Z")
Eliminated: **[del]Feynman, Richard[/del] [del]Neumann, John von[/del] [del]Pauling, Linus[/del]** **Round Four is over. Round Five will end about 12:30 pm EST on Friday, January 19. For Round Four, again you may cast six Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote, or five Evicts and two Keeps.**_Participation is very low_. I’ve PM’ed all the participants in the previous thread (except the two with PMs disabled). _Please ask your friends to show up and vote!_ Thirty-four Scientists remain in contention: **Archimedes - math, physics 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. Fermi, Enrico - atomic physics Franklin, Benjamin - physics, etc. 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 Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Maxwell, James Clerk - physics Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology 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** Top Fifty Scientists who have already been Eliminated: 35. Feynman, Richard - physics 36. Neumann, John von - computer science, etc. 37. Pauling, Linus - chemistry 38. Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. 39. Mendel, Gregor - genetics 40. Fermat, Pierre de - math, optics 41. Franklin, Rosalind - chemistry, X-ray crystallography 42. Boas, Franz - anthropology 43. Bernard, Claude - physiology 44. Meitner, Lise - atomic physics 45. Aristotle - philosophy, geology, biology, etc. 46. Liebig, Justus von - organic chemistry 47. Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham - physics, etc. 48. Boltzmann, Ludwig - thermodynamics 49. Lyell, Charles - geology 50. Dirac, Paul - physics ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/36 "2018-01-17T18:16:04Z")
Evict: Eratosthenes Bohr, Niels Lavoisier, Antoine Mendeleev, Dmitri Gauss, Karl Franklin, Benjamin ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/37 "2018-01-17T18:45:41Z")
Eliminate: Gauss Hubble Huygens Tesla Turing Keep: Leeuwenhoek Mendeleev ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/38 "2018-01-19T12:58:35Z")
Current votes are Franklin, Benjamin : 3 Hubble, Edwin : 3 Tesla, Nicolai : 4-1 Gauss, Karl : 2 Huygens, Christiaan : 2 Turing, Alan : 2 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie v. : 3-1 Bohr, Niels : 1 Eratosthenes : 1 Fermi, Enrico : 1 Lavoisier, Antoine : 1 Mendeleev, Dmitri : 1-1 However, participation has become very low. Unless we get at least one more active participant, I think I’ll postpone the end of Round Five until next week. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/39 "2018-01-22T16:28:13Z")
Eliminated: **[del]Franklin, Benjamin[/del] [del]Hubble, Edwin[/del] [del]Tesla, Nicolai[/del] [del]Gauss, Karl[/del] (\*)** **Round Five is over. Round Six will end about 11:40 pm EST on Wednesday, January 24. Let’s increase the vote pace slightly: For Round Six, you may cast seven Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote, or six Evicts and two Keeps.** I am open to suggestion on other ways to continue this game. (\* - Gauss received only two votes, but they were both recent votes.) Thirty Scientists remain in contention: **Archimedes - math, physics 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. Fermi, Enrico - atomic physics Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc. Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Maxwell, James Clerk - physics Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology Planck, Max - quantum physics Rutherford, Ernest - nuclear physics, atomic theory, radioactivity. Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination Turing, Alan - computer science, etc. Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics Watson, James - Dna** Top Fifty Scientists who have already been Eliminated: 31. Gauss, Karl 32. Tesla, Nicolai 33. Franklin, Benjamin 34. Hubble, Edwin 35. Feynman, Richard - physics 36. Neumann, John von - computer science, etc. 37. Pauling, Linus - chemistry 38. Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. 39. Mendel, Gregor - genetics 40. Fermat, Pierre de - math, optics 41. Franklin, Rosalind - chemistry, X-ray crystallography 42. Boas, Franz - anthropology 43. Bernard, Claude - physiology 44. Meitner, Lise - atomic physics 45. Aristotle - philosophy, geology, biology, etc. 46. Liebig, Justus von - organic chemistry 47. Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham - physics, etc. 48. Boltzmann, Ludwig - thermodynamics 49. Lyell, Charles - geology 50. Dirac, Paul - physics ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/40 "2018-01-22T21:00:39Z")
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