Greatest Scientists: Elimination Game

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Scientific minds want to know.

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

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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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With the exception of Ben Franklin, I agree.

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Newtonians celebrate!

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