# 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:** 9
**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 17, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/161 "2017-11-17T17:31:23Z")
Scientists with 2 or more votes: Marsh, Othneil : 4 Mullis, Kary : 4 Pythagoras : 3 Russell, Bertrand : 3 Aristotle : 4-1 = 2.99 Bacon, Francis : 2 Godel, Kurt : 2 Liebig, Justus van : 2 Lister, Joseph : 2 Morley, Edward : 2 Semmelweis, Ignaz : 2 Wigner, Eugene : 2 Franklin, Benjamin : 2-1 = 0.99 Bardeen, John : 1-1 = 0 With these votes the first five on the list would certainly be eliminated. (I’ve not decided if I should speed up the Game by eliminated all the twice-voteds as well.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/162 "2017-11-17T17:36:55Z")
I think it’s probably time to ditch the “Keep” option. Or we need more players. ---
**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 17, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/163 "2017-11-17T18:04:35Z")
The Keep option isn’t the problem here. Lack of players is. @ **Gyrate** — do you think I should eliminate all those with 2 votes? Deadline is coming up soon. ---
**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 17, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/164 "2017-11-17T19:15:20Z")
Perhaps you should eliminate the 2’s only if there aren’t “enough” \>2 votes? With “enough” being, say, less than 10% of the existing list (so right now would qualify) I feel this is a problem which will get less serious as the list goes down. We have a wide variety of elimination possibilities right now, so the vote can get a bit scattered ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/165 "2017-11-17T20:53:54Z")
I know I’m not voting right now because there are so many people on the list that I don’t really know, and it’s too much bother to look them all up. ---
**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 17, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/166 "2017-11-17T21:00:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I know I’m not voting right now because there are so many people on the list that I don’t really know, and it’s too much bother to look them all up. Yes, and this is my fault for allowing so many inappropriate nominations. :o In an effort to make amends, I could show the five remaining on my “suggested Mod-Kills” list but (unless your urge me to) I won’t them. By now it’s too little too late. So I’ll end the Round, eliminating all with 2 net votes or more. (see preceding post.) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/167 "2017-11-17T21:08:01Z")
I don’t think it’s really your fault. A lot of it is just due to areas of expertise: We obviously have to have biologists on the list, for instance, but I don’t know much about very many biologists. Darwin and Mendel deserve to be on the list, of course, but so do some other guys who aren’t as broadly famous as them. ---
**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 17, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/168 "2017-11-17T21:09:12Z")
\*\*Elimination Round #5 is over. There will be a Vote counting Elimination on Monday, Nov. 20 at 2 pm EST. For the next round each player has eleven votes, up to two of which may be spent as Keeps.\*\* There are still 89 scientists left. **Official Scientists List:** Agassiz, Louis - biology, geology Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa - math, astronomy Archimedes - math, physics Aristotle - philosophy, geology, biology, etc. Babbage, Charles - computer science Bacon, Francis - philosophy Bardeen, John - physics, invention Bernard, Claude - physiology Berzelius, Jacob - chemistry Boas, Franz - anthropology Bohr, Niels - atomic physics Boltzmann, Ludwig - thermodynamics Borlaug, Norman - agronomics Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics Brahmagupta - math, astronomy Cannon, Annie Jump - astronomy Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy Crick, Francis - Dna Curie, Marie - radioactivity Dalton, John - chemistry Darwin, Charles - biology Davy, Sir Humphrey - chemistry Dirac, Paul - physics Doppler, Christian - physics 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 Fleming, Sir Alexander - medicine, biology 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 Godel, Kurt - math Harvey, William - anatomy, blood Hawking, Stephen - cosmology Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory Hilleman, Maurice - biology, vaccination; saved more lives Hipparchus, of Nicaea - astronomy, etc. Hippocrates, of Cos - medicine Hubble, Edwin - astronomy Hutton, James - geologist Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics Jenner, Edward - vaccination Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry Leakey, Louis - anthropology Leavitt, Henrietta Swan - astronomy Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. Liebig, Justus von - organic chemistry; a great practical scientist. Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Lister, Joseph - antiseptics Lovelace, Ada Byron Countess of - computer science Lyell, Charles - geology Mach, Ernst - physics, cosmology Marsh, Othneil = paleontology Maxwell, James Clerk - physics McClintock, Barbara - genetics Mead, Margaret - anthropology Meitner, Lise - atomic physics Mendel, Gregor - genetics Mendeleev, Dmitri - chemistry Michelson, Albert - astronomy; speed of light Morley, Edward - astronomy, chemistry, optics, and physics. Mullis, Kary - biology Neumann, John von - computer science, etc. Newton, Sir Isaac - math, physics Noether, Emmy - math Oppenheimer, Robert - atomic physics Pasteur, Louis - chemistry, biology Pauli, Wolfgang - quantum physics Pauling, Linus - chemistry Planck, Max - quantum physics Poincare, Henri - math Ptolemy - astronomy Pythagoras - math Russell, Bertrand - math Rutherford, Ernest - nuclear physics, atomic theory, radioactivity. Salk, Jonas - medicine, vaccination Schrodinger, Erwin - wave mechanics Semmelweis, Ignaz - antiseptics Shannon, Claude - computer science Smith, William - geology Tesla, Nicolai - physics, invention Thales, of Miletus - math Thorne, Kip - physics Turing, Alan - computer science, etc. Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics Watson, James - Dna Wegener, Alfred - meteorology, continental drift Wigner, Eugene - physics, symmetry Zhang Heng - astronomy, mechanics Eliminated already: [del]Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham - physics, etc.[/del] 11/15 [del]Anning, Mary - paleontology[/del] 11/15 [del]Arrow, Kenneth - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Braun, Wernher von - rocket science[/del] 11/13 [del]Bruno, Giordano - philosophy[/del] 11/15 [del]Edison, Thomas Alva - invention[/del] 11/09 [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]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]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]Leonardo da Vinci - anatomy, invention, etc.[/del] 11/15 [del]Marconi, Guglielmo - radio transmission[/del] 11/15 [del]Nisibis, St. Jacob of - theology, founded early school[/del] 11/09 [del]Ockham, William of - philosophy[/del] 11/11 [del]Patterson. Clair - geochemistry[/del] 11/15 [del]Ricardo, David - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Rubin, Vera - astronomy[/del] 11/15 [del]Sagan, Carl - astronomy[/del] 11/09 [del]Sakharov, Andrei - nuclear physics[/del] 11/13 [del]Samuelson, Paul - economics[/del] 11/11 [del]Smith, Adam - economics[/del] 11/11 [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 ---
**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 18, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/169 "2017-11-18T10:54:29Z")
Um - is that meant to be a new list? All the eliminees from post 161 are still 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 18, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/170 "2017-11-18T12:06:04Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Um - is that meant to be a new list? All the eliminees from post 161 are still on it Oops! :smack: Let me try again: **Official Scientists List:** Agassiz, Louis - biology, geology Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa - math, astronomy Archimedes - math, physics Babbage, Charles - computer science Bardeen, John - physics, invention Bernard, Claude - physiology Berzelius, Jacob - chemistry Boas, Franz - anthropology Bohr, Niels - atomic physics Boltzmann, Ludwig - thermodynamics Borlaug, Norman - agronomics Boyle, Robert - chemistry, physics Brahmagupta - math, astronomy Cannon, Annie Jump - astronomy Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy Crick, Francis - Dna Curie, Marie - radioactivity Dalton, John - chemistry Darwin, Charles - biology Davy, Sir Humphrey - chemistry Dirac, Paul - physics Doppler, Christian - physics 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 Fleming, Sir Alexander - medicine, biology 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 Harvey, William - anatomy, blood Hawking, Stephen - cosmology Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory Hilleman, Maurice - biology, vaccination; saved more lives Hipparchus, of Nicaea - astronomy, etc. Hippocrates, of Cos - medicine Hubble, Edwin - astronomy Hutton, James - geologist Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics Jenner, Edward - vaccination Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry Leakey, Louis - anthropology Leavitt, Henrietta Swan - astronomy Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Lovelace, Ada Byron Countess of - computer science Lyell, Charles - geology Mach, Ernst - physics, cosmology Maxwell, James Clerk - physics McClintock, Barbara - genetics Mead, Margaret - anthropology 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 Oppenheimer, Robert - atomic 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 Shannon, Claude - computer science Smith, William - geology Tesla, Nicolai - physics, invention Thales, of Miletus - math Thorne, Kip - physics Turing, Alan - computer science, etc. Vesalius, Andreas - founder of anatomical sciences Volta, Alessandro - chemistry, physics Watson, James - Dna Wegener, Alfred - meteorology, continental drift Zhang Heng - astronomy, mechanics 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]Bacon, Francis - philosophy[/del] 11/17 [del]Braun, Wernher von - rocket science[/del] 11/13 [del]Bruno, Giordano - philosophy[/del] 11/15 [del]Edison, Thomas Alva - invention[/del] 11/09 [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]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]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]Marconi, Guglielmo - radio transmission[/del] 11/15 [del]Marsh, Othneil = paleontology[/del] 11/17 [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]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]Smith, Adam - economics[/del] 11/11 [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 ---
**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 19, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/171 "2017-11-19T21:11:59Z")
Sending out to pasture… Hippocrates of Cos - on the grounds that an unknown amount of “his” work may in fact be his students’ Alexander Fleming - he discovered penicillin, but the bulk of the very substantial work involved in developing it into a usable substance, was done by a team he wasn’t involved in Margaret Mead - repeated rumours of dubious work, from multiple sources And a bunch of people who did solid work in their fields, but not in a ground-breaking or paradigm-shifting way: John Bardeen Ludwig Boltzmann Annie Jump Cannon Christian Doppler Charles Lyell Ernst Mach William Smith Kip Thorne ---
**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 20, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/172 "2017-11-20T00:09:25Z")
Out they go… Brahmagpta Cannon, Annie Jump Eratosthenes Hawking, Stephen Hutton, James Meitner, Lise Pauli, Wolfgang Shannon, Claude Thales Thorne, Kip Zhang Heng ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/173 "2017-11-20T04:38:53Z")
Eliminations: Bardeen, John Bernard, Claude Boltzmann, Ludwig Brahmagupta Cannon, Annie Jump Hipparchus of Nicaea Leavitt, Henrietta Swan Meitner, Lise Noether, Emmy Shannon, Claude Thorne, Kip ---
**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 20, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/174 "2017-11-20T06:12:08Z")
Well now, before it becomes too late I can see I need to change a vote. I’m going to give Christian Doppler a brief reprieve in order to throw up a shield in front of\*\* Lise Meitner\*\*, a lean mean sciencing machine who kept sciencing across three different countries and five decades, and a career including working around rules that barred her (as a woman) from going to university at all, having to move to Germany for a job because there were no science positions for women in Vienna, having to run for her life from the Nazis, and having to do research behind her department head’s back in Sweden, because he didn’t like women scientists. Despite all this she managed to take part in critical research in atomic theory, and was probably robbed of a Nobel prize for her work with Otto Hahn on nuclear fission. In summary, new vote slate: Ditch: Hippocrates Fleming Mead Bardeen Boltzmann Cannon Lyell Mach Smith Thorne Keep: Meitner ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/175 "2017-11-20T09:17:29Z")
ELIMINATE: Babbage, Charles Cannon, Annie Jump Fleming, Alexander Galen, of Pergamon Harvey, William Lovelace, Ada Mead, Margaret Oppenheimer, Robert Pauling, Linus Thales Keep: Eratosthenes ---
**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 20, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/176 "2017-11-20T18:00:32Z")
With deadline one hour away, these are the scientists with 2 or more votes: Cannon, Annie Jump : 4 Thorne, Kip : 3 Boltzmann, Ludwig : 2 Brahmagupta : 2 Fleming, Alexander : 2 Mead, Margaret : 2 Shannon, Claude : 2 Thales : 2 Meitner, Lise : 3-1 = 1.99 Bardeen, John : 2-1 = 0.99 Franklin, Benjamin : 1-1 = 0 Eratosthenes : 1-1 = 0 If there are no changes, then (following the precedent of #154) those with 2 or more votes will be eliminated — the first eight names on the list above. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/177 "2017-11-20T18:11:54Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > With deadline one hour away, these are the scientists with 2 or more votes: > Cannon, Annie Jump : 4 > Thorne, Kip : 3 > Boltzmann, Ludwig : 2 > Brahmagupta : 2 > Fleming, Alexander : 2 > Mead, Margaret : 2 > Shannon, Claude : 2 > Thales : 2 > > Meitner, Lise : 3-1 = 1.99 > Bardeen, John : 2-1 = 0.99 > Franklin, Benjamin : 1-1 = 0 > Eratosthenes : 1-1 = 0 > > If there are no changes, then (following the precedent of #154) those with 2 or more votes will be eliminated — the first eight names on the list above. I think you carried over some of this info from the previous round. I’ll throw mine out there though: Eliminate: Cannon Babbage Franklin, Benjamin Thorne Oppenheimer Lyell Hippocrates Keep Bardeen 2 nobels and enabling all modern electronics means he’s gotta stay longer than most mid century physicists. ---
**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 20, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/178 "2017-11-20T18:33:29Z")
If these latest votes are the last, there are 12 scientists will be eliminated: Cannon, Annie Jump : 5 Thorne, Kip : 4 Babbage, Charles : 2 Boltzmann, Ludwig : 2 Brahmagupta : 2 Fleming, Alexander : 2 Hippocrates of Cos : 2 Lyell, Charles : 2 Oppenheimer, Robert : 2 Mead, Margaret : 2 Shannon, Claude : 2 Thales : 2 I’d prefer not to eliminate scientists with only two Evict votes, but we have only five active participants and we need to continue pruning the list rapidly. Hopefully interest will pick up as the List gets smaller. > [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > I think you carried over some of this info from the previous round. I think I already mentioned that votes are carried over to subsequent rounds unless explicitly changed or revoked. ---
**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 20, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/179 "2017-11-20T19:02:07Z")
\*\*Elimination Round #6 is over. The next Vote-counting Elimination will be on Wednesday, Nov. 22 at 2 pm EST. Twelve scientists were eliminated this round, as 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 77 scientists remaining on the list. **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 Davy, Sir Humphrey - chemistry Dirac, Paul - physics Doppler, Christian - physics 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 Harvey, William - anatomy, blood Hawking, Stephen - cosmology Heisenberg, Werner - quantum theory Hilleman, Maurice - biology, vaccination; saved more lives Hipparchus, of Nicaea - astronomy, etc. Hubble, Edwin - astronomy Hutton, James - geologist Huygens, Christiaan - optics, physics Jenner, Edward - vaccination Kepler, Johannes - astronomy, math Lavoisier, Antoine - chemistry Leakey, Louis - anthropology Leavitt, Henrietta Swan - astronomy Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van - microbiology, microscopy Leibnitz, Gottfried - math, physics, etc. Linnaeus, Carolus - botany, taxonomy Lovelace, Ada Byron Countess of - computer science Mach, Ernst - physics, cosmology Maxwell, James Clerk - physics McClintock, Barbara - genetics 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 Smith, William - geology 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 Zhang Heng - astronomy, mechanics 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]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]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]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]Lyell, Charles - geology[/del] 11/20 [del]Marconi, Guglielmo - radio transmission[/del] 11/15 [del]Marsh, Othneil = paleontology[/del] 11/17 [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]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 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825/180 "2017-11-21T11:20:50Z")
Firstly, I’m not sure how Ada Lovelace is hanging in there when Babbage and Hopper are gone. I respect the woman greatly but c’mon now. Secondly, I want to give a shout out to someone I’ve just remembered who should have been on the original list: **[Arthur Eddington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Eddington)**. He’d probably be gone by now anyway as he could be a bit sloppy around the edges and he treated Chandrasekhar rather badly over the issue of black holes, but he needed mentioning for his work on mathematics, astrophysics, relativity and - weirdly - cycling. ELIMINATE Davy, Humphrey Galen, of Pergamon Harvey, William Jenner, Edward Lovelace, Ada McClintock, Barbara Pauling, Linus Tesla, Nicolai Save: Franklin, Benjamin Meitner, Lise [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-scientists-ever-elimination-game/800825.md?page=10)