Current votes are:
Mendeleev, Dmitri : 3
Euclid : 2
Faraday, Michael : 2
Pasteur, Louis : 2
Archimedes : 1
Linnaeus, Carolus : 2-1
Maxwell, James Clerk : 2-2
Newton, Isaac: : 0-1
If this count is unchanged at end-of-round three hours from now, Mendeleev will be evicted, and I intend to use my dictatorial tie-breaking power to also evict one of those with 2 eviction votes.
Mendeleev and Euclid have been Evicted from Scientists’ Island. We must now gradually prune the Top Ten list, ultimately to select the Greatest Scientist Ever.
**Round Ten is over. Round Eleven will end about 11:40 pm EST on Monday, February 5.
For Round Eleven you may cast three Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote.
The order in which you list the evictions may be used for tie-breaking. For example, if your strongest want is to eliminate Einstein, then Faraday, and Galileo is your distant 3rd choice for elimination; then you’d list the three in that order: Einstein, Faraday, Galileo.**
The Top Ten Scientists are:
Archimedes - math, physics
Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy
Darwin, Charles - biology
Einstein, Albert - physics
Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc.
Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc.
Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy
Maxwell, James Clerk - physics
Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics
Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology
Top Fifty Scientists who have already been Eliminated:
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 - 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
Evict:
Linnaeus
Pasteur
Faraday
Keep:
Maxwell
Evict:
Archimedes
Linnaus
Pasteur
Keep:
Newton
evict:
Mendel
Linnaeus
Copernicus
keep:
Galileo
Mendel has already been Evicted. (He went out as #39.)
Sorry.
Evict:
Linnaeus
Copernicus
Pasteur
Keep:
Galileo
Top vote-getters are
Linnaeus : 4-1
Pasteur : 4
Faraday : 2
Although he has a Keep vote, Linnaeus appears very high on the lists of those voting to evict.
If there’s no change in the next 3½ hours, then Linnaeus and Pasteur will be ousted.
Evict:
Maxwell
Faraday
Pasteur
Keep:
Linnaeus (although he appears to be on the way out regardless)
Louis Pasteur and Carolus Linnaeus are evicted from the Island
**Round Eleven is over. To build suspense we’ll hold Round Twelve open until Friday morning, February 9.
For Round Eleven you may cast three Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote.
The order in which you list the evictions will be used for tie-breaking.
For example, if your strongest want is to eliminate Einstein, then Faraday, and Galileo is your distant 3rd choice for elimination; then you’d list the three in that order: Einstein, Faraday, Galileo.**
The Eight remaining Scientists are a very prestigious company, perhaps the canonical such assembly! Here, with only the ordering of the Final Eight to determine, are the Fifty Greatest Scientists:
Archimedes - math, physics
Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy
Darwin, Charles - biology
Einstein, Albert - physics
Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc.
Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc.
Maxwell, James Clerk - physics
Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics
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
Evict:
Faraday
Archimedes
Copernicus
Keep:
Maxwell
Evict:
Copernicus
Faraday
Archimedes
Keep:
Galileo
Evict:
Archimedes
Faraday
Maxwell
Keep:
Newton
Evict:
Maxwell
Faraday
Archimedes
Keep:
Newton
I’ve changed my mind. Round Twelve will end today as originally scheduled.
The present voting is:
Faraday : 4
Archimedes : 4
Copernicus : 2
Maxwell : 2-1
In the absence of new votes, Faraday will go off as #8 (due to tie-breaking), Archimedes will go off as #7. We’ll be down to the Final Six for Round 13.
Faraday and Archimedes are Evicted from Scientists’ Island.
Round Twelve is over. Round Thirteen will end late Friday or early Saturday. For Round Thirteen you may cast three Evict (elimination) votes and one Keep vote.
The order in which you list the evictions will be used for tie-breaking.
The Top Six Scientists (and those of Top Fifty already eliminated) are:
Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy
Darwin, Charles - biology
Einstein, Albert - physics
Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc.
Maxwell, James Clerk - physics
Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics
Evict:
Copernicus
Keep:
Maxwell
Evict:
Copernicus
Maxwell
Keep:
Newton
Evict:
Maxwell
Copernicus
Keep:
Darwin, just in case someone tries to vote him off the (Galapagos) island
Looks like everyone’s finding it impossible to kick the full complement of three out at this point.
Evict:
Copernicus
Maxwell
Einstein
Keep:
Galileo