# 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:** 3
**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 22, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/41 "2018-01-22T22:11:09Z")
Eliminate: Christiaan Huygens Antoine van Leeuwenhoek James Watson Marie Curie Johannes Kepler Jonas Salk Enrico Fermi ---
**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 24, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/42 "2018-01-24T15:21:43Z")
Eliminated: **[del]Curie, Marie[/del] [del]Fermi, Enrico[/del] [del]Huygens, Christiaan[/del] [del]Turing, Alan[/del] [del]Watson, James[/del]** (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is saved by a Keep vote.) **Round Six is over (a little early). Round Seven will end about 11:40 pm EST on Friday, January 26. For Round Seven, you may cast seven Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote, or six Evicts and two Keeps.** Twenty-five 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 1632 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy 1642 Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics 1707 Euler, Leonhard - math 1707 Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy 1743 Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry 1745 Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics 1791 Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc. 1809 Darwin, Charles - biology 1822 Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology 1831 Maxwell, James Clerk - physics 1834 Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry 1858 Planck, Max - quantum physics 1871 Rutherford, Ernest - atomic theory, radioactivity. 1879 Einstein, Albert - physics 1885 Bohr, Niels - atomic physics 1901 Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory 1914 Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination \*\* Top Fifty Scientists who have already been Eliminated: 26. Curie, Marie 27. Huygens, Christiaan 28. Fermi, Enrico 29. Turing, Alan 30. Watson, James 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:** ![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 24, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/43 "2018-01-24T20:13:41Z")
Evict: Eratosthenes Vesalius Boyle Euler Lavoisier Mendeleev Rutherford Keep: Newton ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/44 "2018-01-24T21:14:12Z")
Eliminate: Lavoisier Maxwell Rutherford Salk Vesalius Volta 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 26, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/45 "2018-01-26T14:28:19Z")
If the current votes do not change, the top four on this list of votes will be eliminated: Lavoisier, Antoine : 2 Rutherford, Ernest : 2 Salk, Jonas : 2 Vesalius, Andreas : 2 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie v. : 3-1 Boyle, Robert : 1 Eratosthenes : 1 Euler, Leonhard : 1 Kepler, Johannes : 1 Maxwell, James Clerk : 1 Volta, Alessandro : 1 Mendeleev, Dmitri : 1-1 Newton, Isaac: : 0-1 ETA: Color me sad. I think **Lavoisier** _definitely_ belongs in the Top Twenty. ---
**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 26, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/46 "2018-01-26T16:50:51Z")
As just indicated, Lavoisier, Rutherford, Salk and Vesalius are evicted from Scientists’ Island. **Round Seven is over. Round Eight will end about 11:40 pm EST on Monday, January 29. For Round Eight, you may cast seven Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote, or six Evicts and two Keeps.** Twenty-one Scientists remain in contention: **Archimedes - math, physics Bohr, Niels - atomic physics Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy Darwin, Charles - biology Einstein, Albert - physics Eratosthenes - math, astronomy Euclid - math Euler, Leonhard - math Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc. Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc. Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math 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 Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics** Top Fifty Scientists who have already been Eliminated: 22. Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry 23. Rutherford, Ernest - atomic theory, radioactivity. 24. Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination 25. Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences 26. Curie, Marie 27. Huygens, Christiaan 28. Fermi, Enrico 29. Turing, Alan 30. Watson, James 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 26, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/47 "2018-01-26T21:09:22Z")
Eliminate: Bohr Heisenberg Kepler Maxwell Planck Volta Keep: Leeuwenhoek Mendeleev You know the list is down to the elite when you decide that you can’t justify keeping one of your own nominations (Planck, in my case) around any longer. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/48 "2018-01-29T13:53:31Z")
Evict: Leeuwenhoek Euclid Linnaeus Pasteur Volta Eratosthenes Heisenberg Keep: Maxwell And wanted to note that Ben Franklin staying around so long was, imo, undeserved. ---
**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 29, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/49 "2018-01-29T14:29:41Z")
The Round will end in 2 hours. At present the vote totals are: Leeuwenhoek, Antonie v. : 4-1 Kepler, Johannes : 2 Eratosthenes : 2 Heisenberg, Werner : 2 Volta, Alessandro : 2 Bohr, Niels : 1 Boyle, Robert : 1 Euclid : 1 Euler, Leonhard : 1 Linnaeus, Carolus : 1 Pasteur, Louis : 1 Planck, Max : 1 Maxwell, James Clerk : 1-1 Mendeleev, Dmitri : 1-1 Newton, Isaac: : 0-1 If these are the final votes, the first five scientists listed above _may_ be evicted. Participation is low, so I’ve reached into votes from six days ago to get the four names with 2 votes above. However, reaching only back six days the vote on Leeuwenhoek is just 2-1, not 4-1. To get the count up to 4-1, I have to reach all the way back to a player ( **Quartz** ) who hasn’t participated since January 13. During the 2 hours remaining I’ll listen to arguments about whether delinquent **Quartz** ’s vote should be allowed to eliminate the First Microbiologist! Then I’ll … flip a coin? ---
**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 29, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/50 "2018-01-29T14:32:30Z")
Evict: Kepler, Johannes Eratosthenes Bohr, Niels Boyle, Robert Planck, Max Maxwell, James Clerk Mendeleev, Dmitri Keep: Leeuwenhoek, Antonie v ---
**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 29, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/51 "2018-01-29T16:32:37Z")
Scientists with two or more Evict votes and no Keeps are eliminated: [del]Kepler, Johannes[/del] [del]Bohr, Niels[/del] [del]Eratosthenes[/del] [del]Heisenberg, Werner[/del] [del]Planck, Max[/del] [del]Volta, Alessandro[/del] **Round Eight is over. Round Nine will end about 11:40 pm EST on Wednesday, January 31. For Round Nine, votes will be REDUCED. You may cast five Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote, or four Evicts and two Keeps.** Fifteen Scientists remain in contention: **Archimedes - math, physics Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy Darwin, Charles - biology Einstein, Albert - physics Euclid - math Euler, Leonhard - math Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc. Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc. 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** Top Fifty Scientists who have already been Eliminated: 16. Bohr, Niels 17. Eratosthenes 18. Heisenberg, Werner 19. Planck, Max 20. Volta, Alessandro 21. Kepler, Johannes 22. Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry 23. Rutherford, Ernest - atomic theory, radioactivity. 24. Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination 25. Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences 26. Curie, Marie 27. Huygens, Christiaan 28. Fermi, Enrico 29. Turing, Alan 30. Watson, James 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:** ![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 29, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/52 "2018-01-29T19:27:41Z")
Keep: Newton, Sir Isaac Evict: Boyle, Robert Euler, Leonard Linnaeus, Carolus Maxwell, James C. Mendeleev, Dmitri ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/53 "2018-01-29T20:51:39Z")
Keep: Maxwell (seriously, he’s already been getting evict votes?) Evict: Leeuwenhoek Boyle Euler Euclid Linnaeus ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/54 "2018-01-29T23:46:26Z")
Evict: Linnaeus Leeuwenhoek Mendeleev Euler Keep: Maxwell Maxwell has got to remain at least as long as Faraday ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/55 "2018-01-30T22:08:50Z")
Evict: Boyle Euler Maxwell Pasteur Keep: Leeuwenhoek Linnaeus Had I been given the option to retain three, I’d have kept Mendeleev and spared Pasteur, who will likely hang around anyway. ---
**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 31, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/56 "2018-01-31T15:29:23Z")
With an hour to go, the vote count is Euler, Leonhard : 4 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie v. : 5-1 Boyle, Robert : 3 Linnaeus, Carolus : 3-1 Mendeleev, Dmitri : 2-0 Euclid : 1 Pasteur, Louis : 1 Maxwell, James Clerk : 2-2 Newton, Isaac: : 0-1 If these counts do not change, the first three listed will be evicted. Three of the votes to Evict Van Leeuwenhoek are very old votes, placed by players who’ve not posted for a while. However even if these old votes are given only half value, Van Leeuwenhoek would still have a net of 2½ votes so … off the island he goes. ---
**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 31, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/57 "2018-01-31T16:44:39Z")
Three Scientists are evicted: [del]Euler, Leonhard[/del] [del]Boyle, Robert[/del] [del]Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van[/del] **Round Nine is over. Round Ten will end about 11:40 pm EST on Friday, February 2. For Round Ten you may cast four Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote.** Twelve Scientists remain in contention: **Archimedes - math, physics Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy Darwin, Charles - biology Einstein, Albert - physics Euclid - math Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc. Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc. Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Maxwell, James Clerk - physics Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology** Top Fifty Scientists who have already been Eliminated: 13. Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van 14. Boyle, Robert 15. Euler, Leonhard 16. Bohr, Niels 17. Eratosthenes 18. Heisenberg, Werner 19. Planck, Max 20. Volta, Alessandro 21. Kepler, Johannes 22. Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry 23. Rutherford, Ernest - atomic theory, radioactivity. 24. Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination 25. Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences 26. Curie, Marie 27. Huygens, Christiaan 28. Fermi, Enrico 29. Turing, Alan 30. Watson, James 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:** ![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 31, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/58 "2018-01-31T19:18:25Z")
Top Twelve, eh? Evict: Archimedes Faraday Maxwell Mendeleev Keep: Newton ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/59 "2018-01-31T21:42:33Z")
Evict: Euclid Linnaeus Mendeleev Pasteur Keep: Maxwell ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/60 "2018-02-01T16:17:05Z")
Evict: Euclid Faraday Maxwell Pasteur Keep: Linnaeus Wishing I could retain Mendeleev as well, but I have more interest in biology than chemistry, so it’s time for Dmitri to go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909.md?page=4)