# Greatest Scientists: Elimination Game

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**Created:** [January 5, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909 "2018-01-05T11:12:33Z")\
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**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:** [February 20, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/101 "2018-02-20T23:50:28Z")

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Scientific minds want to know.

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**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:** [February 21, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/102 "2018-02-21T03:26:38Z")

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If current standings hold, and given the activity, they should, the finals are:

1. Newton
2. Galileo
3. Darwin
4. Einstein

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**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:** [February 26, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/103 "2018-02-26T20:02:13Z")

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and now, it’s a week later. Newton wins.

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**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:** [February 27, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/104 "2018-02-27T18:28:50Z")

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I’ll make it official.

_ **The Fifty Greatest Scientists Ever, in order, are:** _

1. Newton, Sir Isaac
2. Galileo
3. Darwin, Charles
4. Einstein, Albert
5. Maxwell, James Clerk
6. Copernicus, Nicolas
7. Archimedes
8. Faraday, Michael
9. Linnaeus, Carolus
10. Pasteur, Louis
11. Euclid
12. Mendeleev, Dmitri
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
23. Rutherford, Ernest
24. Salk, Jonas
25. Vesalius, Andreas
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
36. Neumann, John von
37. Pauling, Linus
38. Leibnitz, Gottfried
39. Mendel, Gregor
40. Fermat, Pierre de
41. Franklin, Rosalind
42. Boas, Franz
43. Bernard, Claude
44. Meitner, Lise
45. Aristotle
46. Liebig, Justus von
47. Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham
48. Boltzmann, Ludwig
49. Lyell, Charles
50. Dirac, Paul

I think the final list is very reasonable. If I could make only one change to the Top Ten, I’d replace Linnaeus with Lavoisier.

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**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:** [February 28, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/105 "2018-02-28T15:12:36Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> I think the final list is very reasonable.

With the exception of Ben Franklin, I agree.

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**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:** [February 28, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/106 "2018-02-28T16:16:30Z")

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[Newtonians celebrate!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI3IL46yq4)

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**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-elimination-game/805909/107 "2018-02-28T23:00:16Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> [Newtonians celebrate!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI3IL46yq4)

It was quite predictable (assuming knowledge of all particles in the universe and the ability to perfectly calculate their trajectories). 😉

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