# Greatest Scientists Ever: Elimination Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 5, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825 "2017-11-05T21:08:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [November 24, 2017, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/201 "2017-11-24T07:20:19Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Have fun! > > If you wish you may PM me (or post here) a _prioritized_ list of dozens of votes. I will cross out those already eliminated and, each round, take your complement of votes from the top of your list. That’s very kind of you, and if I manage to lever my family members off the computer where I stored my obscurer scientists notes at any time this evening, I will certainly take you up on it! ---
**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:** [November 24, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/202 "2017-11-24T17:59:46Z")
With one hour to deadline, here are the scientists with two or more votes (whether Evict or Keep): McClintock, Barbara : 5 Dirac, Paul : 3 Doppler, Christian : 3 Hawking, Stephen : 3 Smith, William : 3 Bardeen, John : 2 Berzelius, Jacob : 2 Eratosthenes : 2 Galen, of Pergamon : 2 Gell-Mann, Murray : 2 Hutton, James : 2 Noether, Emmy : 2 Schrodinger, Erwin : 2 Borlaug, Norman : 3-1 = 1.99 Meitner, Lise : 3-1 = 1.99 Tesla, Nicolai : 3-1 = 1.99 Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad : 3-2 = 0.99 Leakey, Louis : 2-1 = 0.99 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van : 2-1 = 0.99 Franklin, Benjamin : 1-4 = -3 If the voting does not change, the first five names listed above will be Eliminated. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/203 "2017-11-24T18:58:24Z")
\*\*Elimination Round #8 is over. The next Vote-counting Elimination will be on Monday, Nov. 27 at 2 pm EST. Five scientists were eliminated this round: those shown in the preceding post. For the next round each player has ten votes total: eight Evict votes, one Keep vote, and a tenth vote which can be spent as either Evict or Keep.\*\* There are 66 scientists remaining on the list. (We’re making progress! More than half of our nominated scientists have been evicted already.) **Official Scientists List:** Agassiz, Louis - biology, geology Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa - math, astronomy Archimedes - math, physics Bardeen, John - physics, invention Bernard, Claude - physiology Berzelius, Jacob - chemistry Boas, Franz - anthropology Bohr, Niels - atomic physics Borlaug, Norman - agronomics Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy Crick, Francis - Dna Curie, Marie - radioactivity Dalton, John - chemistry Darwin, Charles - biology Einstein, Albert - physics Eratosthenes - math, astronomy Euclid - math Euler, Leonhard - math Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc. Fermat, Pierre de - math, optics Fermi, Enrico - atomic physics Feynman, Richard - physics Franklin, Benjamin - physics, etc. Franklin, Rosalind - chemistry, X-ray crystallography Galen, of Pergamon - biology, medicine Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc. Gauss, Karl - math, astronomy Gell-Mann, Murray - physics Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory Hilleman, Maurice - biology, vaccination; saved more lives Hubble, Edwin - astronomy Hutton, James - geologist Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics Jenner, Edward - vaccination Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry Leakey, Louis - anthropology Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Mach, Ernst - physics, cosmology Maxwell, James Clerk - physics Meitner, Lise - atomic physics Mendel, Gregor - genetics Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry Michelson, Albert - astronomy; speed of light Neumann, John von - computer science, etc. Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics Noether, Emmy - math Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology Pauli, Wolfgang - quantum physics Pauling, Linus - chemistry Planck, Max - quantum physics Poincare, Henri - math Ptolemy - astronomy Rutherford, Ernest - nuclear physics, atomic theory, radioactivity. Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination Schrodinger, Erwin - wave mechanics Tesla, Nicolai - physics, invention Turing, Alan - computer science, etc. Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics Watson, James - Dna Wegener, Alfred - meteorology, continental drift Eliminated: [del]Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham - physics, etc.[/del] 11/15 [del]Anning, Mary - paleontology[/del] 11/15 [del]Aristotle - philosophy, geology, biology, etc.[/del] 11/17 [del]Arrow, Kenneth - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Babbage, Charles - computer science[/del] 11/20 [del]Bacon, Francis - philosophy[/del] 11/17 [del]Boltzmann, Ludwig - thermodynamics[/del] 11/20 [del]Brahmagupta - math, astronomy[/del] 11/20 [del]Braun, Wernher von - rocket science[/del] 11/13 [del]Bruno, Giordano - philosophy[/del] 11/15 [del]Cannon, Annie Jump - astronomy[/del] 11/20 [del]Davy, Sir Humphrey - chemistry[/del] 11/22 [del]Dirac, Paul - physics[/del] 11/24 [del]Doppler, Christian - physics[/del] 11/24 [del]Edison, Thomas Alva - invention[/del] 11/09 [del]Fleming, Sir Alexander - medicine, biology[/del] 11/20 [del]Freud, Sigmund - psychology[/del] 11/09 [del]Friedman, Milton - economics[/del] 11/09 [del]Ge Hong - philosophy, alchemy[/del] 11/09 [del]Goddard, Robert - rocket science[/del] 11/13 [del]Godel, Kurt - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - natural philosophy[/del] 11/13 [del]Goodall, Jane - primatology[/del] 11/15 [del]Gutenberg, Johannes - invention[/del] 11/11 [del]Haber, Fritz - chemistry; invention (fertilizer, gas warfare)[/del] 11/15 [del]Halley, Edmond - astronomy, etc.[/del] 11/13 [del]Hamilton, William - astronomy, optics, math[/del] 11/15 [del]Harvey, William - anatomy, blood[/del] 11/22 [del]Hawking, Stephen - cosmology[/del] 11/24 [del]Hipparchus, of Nicaea - astronomy, etc.[/del] 11/22 [del]Hippocrates, of Cos - medicine[/del] 11/20 [del]Hopper, Grace - computer science[/del] 11/15 [del]Ibn al-Nafis - anatomy, blood[/del] 11/15 [del]Jung, Carl - psychology[/del] 11/11 [del]Keynes, John Maynard - economics[/del] 11/13 [del]Lamarr, Hedy - invention[/del] 11/11 [del]Leavitt, Henrietta Swan - astronomy[/del] 11/22 [del]Leonardo da Vinci - anatomy, invention, etc.[/del] 11/15 [del]Liebig, Justus von - organic chemistry; a great practical scientist.[/del] 11/17 [del]Lister, Joseph - antiseptics[/del] 11/17 [del]Lovelace, Ada Byron Countess of - computer science[/del] 11/22 [del]Lyell, Charles - geology[/del] 11/20 [del]Marconi, Guglielmo - radio transmission[/del] 11/15 [del]Marsh, Othneil = paleontology[/del] 11/17 [del]McClintock, Barbara - genetics[/del] 11/24 [del]Mead, Margaret - anthropology[/del] 11/20 [del]Morley, Edward - astronomy, chemistry, optics, and physics.[/del] 11/17 [del]Mullis, Kary - biology[/del] 11/17 [del]Nisibis, St. Jacob of - theology, founded early school[/del] 11/09 [del]Ockham, William of - philosophy[/del] 11/11 [del]Oppenheimer, Robert - atomic physics[/del] 11/20 [del]Patterson. Clair - geochemistry[/del] 11/15 [del]Pythagoras - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Ricardo, David - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Rubin, Vera - astronomy[/del] 11/15 [del]Russell, Bertrand - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Sagan, Carl - astronomy[/del] 11/09 [del]Sakharov, Andrei - nuclear physics[/del] 11/13 [del]Samuelson, Paul - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Semmelweis, Ignaz - antiseptics[/del] 11/17 [del]Shannon, Claude - computer science[/del] 11/20 [del]Smith, Adam - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Smith, William - geology[/del] 11/24 [del]Thales, of Miletus - math[/del] 11/20 [del]Thorne, Kip - physics[/del] 11/20 [del]Tyson, Neil deGrasse - astrophysics, science popularizer[/del] 11/09 [del]Ventner, Craig - genetics[/del] 11/15 [del]Virchow, Rudolf - medicine, cell doctrine, etc.[/del] 11/13 [del]Wigner, Eugene - physics, symmetry[/del] 11/17 [del]Zhang Heng - astronomy, mechanics[/del] 11/22 ---
**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:** [November 27, 2017, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/204 "2017-11-27T10:59:33Z")
Players are still too stuffed with turkey to vote? 😛 Deadline is in 8 hours. Only **Aspidistra** has changed his votes this round. (He did it with a PM’ed prioritized list. The rest of you are welcome to do the same if you wish.) He placed new Evict votes on Michelson, Noether, and Gell-Mann; and moved his Keep vote from Al-Biruni to Meitner. Otherwise vote counts are much the same as in #202. As is, Noether and Gell-Mann are headed for elimination. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/205 "2017-11-27T13:40:04Z")
Eliminate: Al-Biruni Al-Khwarizmi Bardeen Bernard Gell-Mann Meitner Noether Poincare Keep: Leakey Leeuwenhoek ---
**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:** [November 27, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/206 "2017-11-27T15:23:02Z")
Evict Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa - math, astronomy Bardeen, John - physics, invention Bernard, Claude - physiology Leakey, Louis - anthropology Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. Noether, Emmy - math Pauli, Wolfgang - quantum physics Pauling, Linus - chemistry Keep: Newton, Sir Isaac ---
**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:** [November 27, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/207 "2017-11-27T19:14:49Z")
Scientists getting two or more votes are: _Noether, Emmy_ : 4 _Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa_ : 3 _Bardeen, John_ : 3 _Gell-Mann, Murray_ : 3 Galen, of Pergamon : 2 Pauling, Linus : 2 Bernard, Claude : 2 Schrodinger, Erwin : 2 Michelson, Albert : 2 Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad : 3-1 = 1.99 Leakey, Louis : 3-1 = 1.99 Tesla, Nicolai : 3-1 = 1.99 Borlaug, Norman : 2-1 = 0.99 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van : 2-1 = 0.99 Meitner, Lise : 3-2 = 0.99 Franklin, Benjamin : 1-4 = -3 The first four above (those with 3 or more votes) are Eliminated. \*\*Elimination Round #9 is over. The next Vote-counting Elimination will be on Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 2 pm EST. For the next round each player has ten votes total: eight Evict votes, one Keep vote, and a tenth vote which can be spent as either Evict or Keep.\*\* There are 62 scientists remaining on the list **Official Scientists List:** Agassiz, Louis - biology, geology Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy Archimedes - math, physics Bernard, Claude - physiology Berzelius, Jacob - chemistry Boas, Franz - anthropology Bohr, Niels - atomic physics Borlaug, Norman - agronomics Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy Crick, Francis - Dna Curie, Marie - radioactivity Dalton, John - chemistry Darwin, Charles - biology Einstein, Albert - physics Eratosthenes - math, astronomy Euclid - math Euler, Leonhard - math Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc. Fermat, Pierre de - math, optics Fermi, Enrico - atomic physics Feynman, Richard - physics Franklin, Benjamin - physics, etc. Franklin, Rosalind - chemistry, X-ray crystallography Galen, of Pergamon - biology, medicine Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc. Gauss, Karl - math, astronomy Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory Hilleman, Maurice - biology, vaccination; saved more lives Hubble, Edwin - astronomy Hutton, James - geologist Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics Jenner, Edward - vaccination Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry Leakey, Louis - anthropology Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Mach, Ernst - physics, cosmology Maxwell, James Clerk - physics Meitner, Lise - atomic physics Mendel, Gregor - genetics Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry Michelson, Albert - astronomy; speed of light Neumann, John von - computer science, etc. Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology Pauli, Wolfgang - quantum physics Pauling, Linus - chemistry Planck, Max - quantum physics Poincare, Henri - math Ptolemy - astronomy Rutherford, Ernest - nuclear physics, atomic theory, radioactivity. Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination Schrodinger, Erwin - wave mechanics Tesla, Nicolai - physics, invention Turing, Alan - computer science, etc. Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics Watson, James - Dna Wegener, Alfred - meteorology, continental drift Eliminated: [del]Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa - math, astronomy[/del] 11/27 [del]Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham - physics, etc.[/del] 11/15 [del]Anning, Mary - paleontology[/del] 11/15 [del]Aristotle - philosophy, geology, biology, etc.[/del] 11/17 [del]Arrow, Kenneth - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Babbage, Charles - computer science[/del] 11/20 [del]Bacon, Francis - philosophy[/del] 11/17 [del]Bardeen, John - physics, invention[/del] 11/27 [del]Boltzmann, Ludwig - thermodynamics[/del] 11/20 [del]Brahmagupta - math, astronomy[/del] 11/20 [del]Braun, Wernher von - rocket science[/del] 11/13 [del]Bruno, Giordano - philosophy[/del] 11/15 [del]Cannon, Annie Jump - astronomy[/del] 11/20 [del]Davy, Sir Humphrey - chemistry[/del] 11/22 [del]Dirac, Paul - physics[/del] 11/24 [del]Doppler, Christian - physics[/del] 11/24 [del]Edison, Thomas Alva - invention[/del] 11/09 [del]Fleming, Sir Alexander - medicine, biology[/del] 11/20 [del]Freud, Sigmund - psychology[/del] 11/09 [del]Friedman, Milton - economics[/del] 11/09 [del]Ge Hong - philosophy, alchemy[/del] 11/09 [del]Gell-Mann, Murray - physics[/del] 11/27 [del]Goddard, Robert - rocket science[/del] 11/13 [del]Godel, Kurt - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - natural philosophy[/del] 11/13 [del]Goodall, Jane - primatology[/del] 11/15 [del]Gutenberg, Johannes - invention[/del] 11/11 [del]Haber, Fritz - chemistry; invention (fertilizer, gas warfare)[/del] 11/15 [del]Halley, Edmond - astronomy, etc.[/del] 11/13 [del]Hamilton, William - astronomy, optics, math[/del] 11/15 [del]Harvey, William - anatomy, blood[/del] 11/22 [del]Hawking, Stephen - cosmology[/del] 11/24 [del]Hipparchus, of Nicaea - astronomy, etc.[/del] 11/22 [del]Hippocrates, of Cos - medicine[/del] 11/20 [del]Hopper, Grace - computer science[/del] 11/15 [del]Ibn al-Nafis - anatomy, blood[/del] 11/15 [del]Jung, Carl - psychology[/del] 11/11 [del]Keynes, John Maynard - economics[/del] 11/13 [del]Lamarr, Hedy - invention[/del] 11/11 [del]Leavitt, Henrietta Swan - astronomy[/del] 11/22 [del]Leonardo da Vinci - anatomy, invention, etc.[/del] 11/15 [del]Liebig, Justus von - organic chemistry; a great practical scientist.[/del] 11/17 [del]Lister, Joseph - antiseptics[/del] 11/17 [del]Lovelace, Ada Byron Countess of - computer science[/del] 11/22 [del]Lyell, Charles - geology[/del] 11/20 [del]Marconi, Guglielmo - radio transmission[/del] 11/15 [del]Marsh, Othneil = paleontology[/del] 11/17 [del]McClintock, Barbara - genetics[/del] 11/24 [del]Mead, Margaret - anthropology[/del] 11/20 [del]Morley, Edward - astronomy, chemistry, optics, and physics.[/del] 11/17 [del]Mullis, Kary - biology[/del] 11/17 [del]Nisibis, St. Jacob of - theology, founded early school[/del] 11/09 [del]Noether, Emmy - math[/del] 11/27 [del]Ockham, William of - philosophy[/del] 11/11 [del]Oppenheimer, Robert - atomic physics[/del] 11/20 [del]Patterson. Clair - geochemistry[/del] 11/15 [del]Pythagoras - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Ricardo, David - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Rubin, Vera - astronomy[/del] 11/15 [del]Russell, Bertrand - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Sagan, Carl - astronomy[/del] 11/09 [del]Sakharov, Andrei - nuclear physics[/del] 11/13 [del]Samuelson, Paul - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Semmelweis, Ignaz - antiseptics[/del] 11/17 [del]Shannon, Claude - computer science[/del] 11/20 [del]Smith, Adam - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Smith, William - geology[/del] 11/24 [del]Thales, of Miletus - math[/del] 11/20 [del]Thorne, Kip - physics[/del] 11/20 [del]Tyson, Neil deGrasse - astrophysics, science popularizer[/del] 11/09 [del]Ventner, Craig - genetics[/del] 11/15 [del]Virchow, Rudolf - medicine, cell doctrine, etc.[/del] 11/13 [del]Wigner, Eugene - physics, symmetry[/del] 11/17 [del]Zhang Heng - astronomy, mechanics[/del] 11/22 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/208 "2017-11-28T21:18:52Z")
Eliminate: Al-Biruni Bernard Berzelius Hilleman Meitner Pauli Poincare Wegener Keep: Leakey Leeuwenhoek ---
**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:** [November 28, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/209 "2017-11-28T22:08:21Z")
Evict: Al-Biruni Bernard Berzelius Hilleman Meitner Pauli Poincare Rutherford Wegener ---
**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:** [November 29, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/210 "2017-11-29T00:54:10Z")
With **Aspidistra** adding Salk, Jenner, Huygens, Michelson to his automated votes; scientists with two or more active votes at present are:Berzelius, Jacob : 3 Hilleman, Maurice : 3 Wegener, Alfred : 3 Bernard, Claude : 2 Galen, of Pergamon : 2 Jenner, Edward : 2 Michelson, Albert : 2 Pauli, Wolfgang : 2 Poincare, Henri : 2 Schrodinger, Erwin : 2 Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad : 3-1 = 1.99 Meitner, Lise : 4-2 = 1.99 Tesla, Nicolai : 3-1 = 1.99 Borlaug, Norman : 2-1 = 0.99 Leakey, Louis : 2-1 = 0.99 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van : 2-1 = 0.99 Franklin, Benjamin : 1-4 = -3 ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/211 "2017-11-29T06:40:03Z")
Keep Hilleman Eliminate Tesla Poincare Ptolemy Mach, Ernst Honestly, this is hard to get my head around. FWIW, here’s a couple of lists of scientists: > **[Adherents - technology and environmental policy to education](https://adherents.com)** > > Latest news HBO Max Who’s who in ‘The Last of Us’: the best casting for the adaptation of the Naughty Dog video game By aliintizar71January 31, 20230 Movies Animated film "Light and the Rock" awarded at IndieJúnior Porto By aliintizar71January 31,... ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/212 "2017-11-29T07:16:22Z")
After, reading about [the germ theory of disease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease), I’m disappointed that nobody nominated ((([John Snow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease)))) one of the fathers of epidemiology and the data scientist who established that cholera wasn’t due to miasma, but rather filthy water. Along the same lines I nominate (((Louis Pasteur))) for the top 10 list. And, reversing myself above, I vote: Keep Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van ---
**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:** [November 29, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/213 "2017-11-29T12:03:11Z")
@ **Measure for Measure** : You’re entitled to eight Evict votes if you want them, along with two Keeps. Just to double-check I have you down as this: > [@](#): > > EVICT Tesla > EVICT Poincare > EVICT Ptolemy > EVICT Mach > > KEEP Hilleman > KEEP Leeuwenhoek I keep old votes pending unless they are explicitly rescinded, so **Measure for Measure** ’s vote, rescinding his old votes, had a big effect. Hilleman is out of the hot seat, replaced by Poincare and Al-Biruni. The current counts are now: Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad : 3 Berzelius, Jacob : 3 Poincare, Henri : 3 Wegener, Alfred : 3 Bernard, Claude : 2 Borlaug, Norman : 2 Galen, of Pergamon : 2 Jenner, Edward : 2 Mach, Ernst : 2 Michelson, Albert : 2 Pauli, Wolfgang : 2 Ptolemy : 2 Schrodinger, Erwin : 2 Hilleman, Maurice : 3-1 = 1.99 Tesla, Nicolai : 3-1 = 1.99 Leakey, Louis : 2-1 = 0.99 Meitner, Lise : 3-2 = 0.99 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van : 1-2 = -1 Franklin, Benjamin : 1-4 = -3 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/214 "2017-11-29T18:40:32Z")
\*\*Elimination Round #10 is over. The next Vote-counting Elimination will be on Friday, Dec. 1 at about 2 pm EST. For the next round each player has nine votes total: seven Evict votes, one Keep vote, and a ninth vote which can be spent as either Evict or Keep.\*\* There are now just 58 scientists remaining on the list. To reduce clutter I’ll just show the latest deletions: [del]Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy[/del] 11/29 [del]Berzelius, Jacob - chemistry[/del] 11/29 [del]Poincare, Henri - math[/del] 11/29 [del]Wegener, Alfred - meteorology, continental drift[/del] 11/29 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/215 "2017-11-29T19:35:11Z")
Evict: Bernard, Claude Borlaug, Norman Galen, of Pergamon Jenner, Edward Mach, Ernst Michelson, Albert Pauli, Wolfgang Schrodinger, Erwin ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/216 "2017-12-01T04:56:15Z")
Eliminate: Bernard Dalton Feynman Franklin, Rosalind Hilleman Meitner Pauli Keep: Leakey Leeuwenhoek ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/217 "2017-12-01T14:24:22Z")
Voting for this round ends in 4 hours and a half. Currently these scientists have 2 or more votes: Borlaug, Norman : 3 Galen, of Pergamon : 3 Jenner, Edward : 3 Mach, Ernst : 3 Michelson, Albert : 3 Schrodinger, Erwin : 3 Bernard, Claude : 2 Dalton, John : 2 Pauli, Wolfgang : 2 Ptolemy : 2 Tesla, Nicolai : 3-1 = 1.99 Hilleman, Maurice : 2-1 = 0.99 Leakey, Louis : 2-1 = 0.99 Meitner, Lise : 2-2 = 0 Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van : 1-2 = -1 Franklin, Benjamin : 1-4 = -3 We’ll want to take a long break for the Holidays, but I suppose we should keep going for at least another week. Thoughts? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/218 "2017-12-01T18:29:36Z")
\*\*Elimination Round #11 is over. The six with 3 votes are eliminated (see #217.) The next Vote-counting Elimination will be on Monday, Dec. 4 at about 1 pm EST. (Note the earlier end time.) For the next round each player has nine votes total: seven Evict votes, one Keep vote, and a ninth vote which can be spent as either Evict or Keep.\*\* There are now just 52 scientists remaining on the list. Agassiz, Louis - biology, geology Archimedes - math, physics Bernard, Claude - physiology Boas, Franz - anthropology Bohr, Niels - atomic physics Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy Crick, Francis - Dna Curie, Marie - radioactivity Dalton, John - chemistry Darwin, Charles - biology Einstein, Albert - physics Eratosthenes - math, astronomy Euclid - math Euler, Leonhard - math Faraday, Michael - electromagnetism, etc. Fermat, Pierre de - math, optics Fermi, Enrico - atomic physics Feynman, Richard - physics Franklin, Benjamin - physics, etc. Franklin, Rosalind - chemistry, X-ray crystallography Galileo - physics, astronomy, etc. Gauss, Karl - math, astronomy Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory Hilleman, Maurice - biology, vaccination; saved more lives Hubble, Edwin - astronomy Hutton, James - geologist Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry Leakey, Louis - anthropology Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Maxwell, James Clerk - physics Meitner, Lise - atomic physics Mendel, Gregor - genetics Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry Neumann, John von - computer science, etc. Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology Pauli, Wolfgang - quantum physics Pauling, Linus - chemistry Planck, Max - quantum physics Ptolemy - astronomy 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 Eliminated: [del]Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy[/del] 11/29 [del]Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa - math, astronomy[/del] 11/27 [del]Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham - physics, etc.[/del] 11/15 [del]Anning, Mary - paleontology[/del] 11/15 [del]Aristotle - philosophy, geology, biology, etc.[/del] 11/17 [del]Arrow, Kenneth - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Babbage, Charles - computer science[/del] 11/20 [del]Bacon, Francis - philosophy[/del] 11/17 [del]Bardeen, John - physics, invention[/del] 11/27 [del]Berzelius, Jacob - chemistry[/del] 11/29 [del]Boltzmann, Ludwig - thermodynamics[/del] 11/20 [del]Borlaug, Norman - agronomics[/del] 12/1 [del]Brahmagupta - math, astronomy[/del] 11/20 [del]Braun, Wernher von - rocket science[/del] 11/13 [del]Bruno, Giordano - philosophy[/del] 11/15 [del]Cannon, Annie Jump - astronomy[/del] 11/20 [del]Davy, Sir Humphrey - chemistry[/del] 11/22 [del]Dirac, Paul - physics[/del] 11/24 [del]Doppler, Christian - physics[/del] 11/24 [del]Edison, Thomas Alva - invention[/del] 11/09 [del]Fleming, Sir Alexander - medicine, biology[/del] 11/20 [del]Freud, Sigmund - psychology[/del] 11/09 [del]Friedman, Milton - economics[/del] 11/09 [del]Galen, of Pergamon - biology, medicine[/del] 12/1 [del]Ge Hong - philosophy, alchemy[/del] 11/09 [del]Gell-Mann, Murray - physics[/del] 11/27 [del]Goddard, Robert - rocket science[/del] 11/13 [del]Godel, Kurt - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - natural philosophy[/del] 11/13 [del]Goodall, Jane - primatology[/del] 11/15 [del]Gutenberg, Johannes - invention[/del] 11/11 [del]Haber, Fritz - chemistry; invention (fertilizer, gas warfare)[/del] 11/15 [del]Halley, Edmond - astronomy, etc.[/del] 11/13 [del]Hamilton, William - astronomy, optics, math[/del] 11/15 [del]Harvey, William - anatomy, blood[/del] 11/22 [del]Hawking, Stephen - cosmology[/del] 11/24 [del]Hipparchus, of Nicaea - astronomy, etc.[/del] 11/22 [del]Hippocrates, of Cos - medicine[/del] 11/20 [del]Hopper, Grace - computer science[/del] 11/15 [del]Ibn al-Nafis - anatomy, blood[/del] 11/15 [del]Jenner, Edward - vaccination[/del] 12/1 [del]Jung, Carl - psychology[/del] 11/11 [del]Keynes, John Maynard - economics[/del] 11/13 [del]Lamarr, Hedy - invention[/del] 11/11 [del]Leavitt, Henrietta Swan - astronomy[/del] 11/22 [del]Leonardo da Vinci - anatomy, invention, etc.[/del] 11/15 [del]Liebig, Justus von - organic chemistry; a great practical scientist.[/del] 11/17 [del]Lister, Joseph - antiseptics[/del] 11/17 [del]Lovelace, Ada Byron Countess of - computer science[/del] 11/22 [del]Lyell, Charles - geology[/del] 11/20 [del]Mach, Ernst - physics, cosmology[/del] 12/1 [del]Marconi, Guglielmo - radio transmission[/del] 11/15 [del]Marsh, Othneil = paleontology[/del] 11/17 [del]McClintock, Barbara - genetics[/del] 11/24 [del]Mead, Margaret - anthropology[/del] 11/20 [del]Michelson, Albert - astronomy; speed of light[/del] 12/1 [del]Morley, Edward - astronomy, chemistry, optics, and physics.[/del] 11/17 [del]Mullis, Kary - biology[/del] 11/17 [del]Nisibis, St. Jacob of - theology, founded early school[/del] 11/09 [del]Noether, Emmy - math[/del] 11/27 [del]Ockham, William of - philosophy[/del] 11/11 [del]Oppenheimer, Robert - atomic physics[/del] 11/20 [del]Patterson. Clair - geochemistry[/del] 11/15 [del]Poincare, Henri - math[/del] 11/29 [del]Pythagoras - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Ricardo, David - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Rubin, Vera - astronomy[/del] 11/15 [del]Russell, Bertrand - math[/del] 11/17 [del]Sagan, Carl - astronomy[/del] 11/09 [del]Sakharov, Andrei - nuclear physics[/del] 11/13 [del]Samuelson, Paul - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Schrodinger, Erwin - wave mechanics[/del] 12/1 [del]Semmelweis, Ignaz - antiseptics[/del] 11/17 [del]Shannon, Claude - computer science[/del] 11/20 [del]Smith, Adam - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Smith, William - geology[/del] 11/24 [del]Thales, of Miletus - math[/del] 11/20 [del]Thorne, Kip - physics[/del] 11/20 [del]Tyson, Neil deGrasse - astrophysics, science popularizer[/del] 11/09 [del]Ventner, Craig - genetics[/del] 11/15 [del]Virchow, Rudolf - medicine, cell doctrine, etc.[/del] 11/13 [del]Wegener, Alfred - meteorology, continental drift[/del] 11/29 [del]Wigner, Eugene - physics, symmetry[/del] 11/17 [del]Zhang Heng - astronomy, mechanics[/del] 11/22 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/219 "2017-12-01T22:05:29Z")
Since nobody I named was eliminated in this latest round, consider Post #216 my vote for Monday’s deadline. I’ll suggest keeping the regular schedule through Dec. 18 and resuming the game Jan. 3, but I should be able to participate regardless of the timing of the break. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/220 "2017-12-02T02:53:02Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Since nobody I named was eliminated in this latest round, consider Post #216 my vote for Monday’s deadline… This is what I do by default anyway. (In fact that’s the only reason we have as many votes down as we do, despite low participation.) For the record, here are the votes currently active:Aspidistra: Hilleman, Leakey, Vesalius, Salk, Huygens, Ptolemy, Bernard, Agassiz Aspidistra KEEP: Meitner Chronos: Ptolemy Elendil’s Heir: Copernicus, Dalton, Hutton Elendil’s Heir KEEP: Franklin (B) Gyrate: Pauling, Tesla, Crick, Eratosthenes, Watson Gyrate KEEP: Franklin (B), Meitner Measure for Measure: Tesla, Ptolemy Measure for Measure KEEP: Hilleman, Leeuwenhoek Pepperwinkle: Bernard, Pauli Quartz: Meitner Snarky\_Kong: Franklin (B) Sternvogel: Bernard, Meitner, Hilleman, Pauli, Dalton, Feynman, Franklin (R) Sternvogel KEEP: Leakey, Leeuwenhoek wevets: Euclid wevets KEEP: Franklin (B) What Exit?: Leeuwenhoek What Exit? KEEP: Franklin (B), Tesla whitetho: Leakey, Mendel, Tesla whitetho KEEP: Faraday, Maxwell [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825.md?page=12)