Eliminate:
Franklin, Benjamin
Lovelace, Ada
Smith, William
Zhang Heng
McClintock, Barbara
Hipparchus, of Nicaea
Harvey, William
Borlaug, Norman
Eliminate:
Eratosthenes
Hawking, Stephen
Hipparchus
Hutton, James
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
Meitner, Lisa
Noether, Emmy
Pauli, Wolfgang
Zhang Heng
How did I miss this game up to now?!?!? Anyway:
EVICT
Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy
Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa - math, astronomy
Berzelius, Jacob - chemistry
Copernicus, Nicolas - astronomy
Dalton, John - chemistry
Davy, Sir Humphrey - chemistry
Dirac, Paul - physics
Doppler, Christian - physics
KEEP
Ben Franklin - love the guy!
EVICT
James Hutton
Goodbye to …
Norman Borlaug
Sir Humphrey Davy
Christian Doppler
Eratosthenes
Stephen Hawking
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Ada Lovelace
Ernst Mach
William Smith
Keeping my Keep vote on Lise Meitner for the moment
Eliminate
Lovelace, Ada Byron
Zhang Heng
Schrodinger, Erwin
Galen, of Pergamon - biology, medicine
Harvey, William
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van
**
Keep **
Ben Franklin
Nikola Tesla
Scientists with two or more active votes are:
Lovelace, Ada Byron Countess of : 4
Davy, Humphrey : 3
Harvey, William : 3
Hipparchus of Nicaea : 3
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan : 3
Zhang Heng : 3
Borlaug, Norman : 2
Doppler, Christian : 2
Eratosthenes : 2
Galen, of Pergamon : 2
Hawking, Stephen : 2
Hutton, James : 2
McClintock, Barbara : 2
Noether, Emmy : 2
Smith, William : 2
Meitner, Lise : 3-2 = 0.99
Tesla, Nicolai : 1-1 = 0
Franklin, Benjamin : 1-4 = -3
With no change in the voting, the first six shown above will be Eliminated.
Eliminate:
Al-Biruni
Bardeen
Bernard
Hipparchus of Nicaea
Leavitt
Noether
Poincare
Zhang Heng
Keep:
Eratosthenes
Leeuwenhoek (first of my nominations to get a vote to ax)
With six nominations, all submitted after the early flurry of easy nominations,*** this is impressive!***
I’m not doing so well. Eight of my twelve nominations(*) are already gone or about to be gone. And with Sternvogel now voting Poincare, only one of my 12 has received zero votes. (I won’t name that 12th lest it jinx her/him.) * — My nominations were of “dark horses” that might be overlooked. Still I stand by them and think most have as much merit as several still on the list.
**Elimination Round #7 is over.
The next Vote-counting Elimination will be on Friday, Nov. 24 at 2 pm EST.
Six scientists were eliminated this round: those shown in a 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 71 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
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
Hawking, Stephen - cosmology
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
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
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]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]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]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
[del]Zhang Heng - astronomy, mechanics[/del] 11/22
Keep:
Newton, Isaac
Evict:
Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad - natural philosophy
Berzelius, Jacob - chemistry
Boas, Franz - anthropology
Borlaug, Norman - agronomics
Eratosthenes - math, astronomy
Gell-Mann, Murray - physics
Hawking, Stephen - cosmology
McClintock, Barbara - genetics
Smith, William - geology
ELIMINATE:
Crick, Francis
Eratosthenes
Galen, of Pergamon
Jenner, Edward
McClintock, Barbara
Pauling, Linus
Tesla, Nicolai
Watson, James
Save:
Franklin, Rosalind
Meitner, Lise
Evict
John Bardeen
Norman Borlaug
Christian Doppler
Stephen Hawking
Maurice Hilleman
Louis Leakey
Ernst Mach
William Smith
Andreas Vesalius
Keep:
Al-Biruni now seems to be the most deserving of the possibly-endangered. I’m impressed at the wide variety of things he was into, and though in some ways he seems like an Islamic Golden Age version of Da Vinci (who’s already gone), was clearly a lot more science-heavy, and less artsy.
It is possible that this may be the last vote of mine for the next week and a half, since I’m about to get on a bike and trek through the Great Wi-Fi-Less Wilderness … I may pop up briefly from time to time to throw Keep votes in the way of those I consider deserving if I get the chance.
Happy Eliminating!
I don’t know enough to contribute to this thread, but interesting to see Tesla getting elimination votes already when he occupied the number one spot in this list of greatest scientists of all time: Top 10 Greatest Scientists Who Changed The World
Here are the scientists with two more active votes at present:
Borlaug, Norman : 3
McClintock, Barbara : 3
Smith, William : 3
Bardeen, John : 2
Berzelius, Jacob : 2
Doppler, Christian : 2
Galen, of Pergamon : 2
Hawking, Stephen : 2
Hutton, James : 2
Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad : 3-1 = 1.99
Eratosthenes : 2-1 = 0.99
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van : 1-1 = 0
Meitner, Lise : 1-1 = 0
Tesla, Nicolai : 1-1 = 0
Franklin, Benjamin : 1-4 = -3
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.
Keep:
Faraday, Michael
Maxwell, James Clerk
Evict:
Doppler, Christian
Leakey, Louis
Mendel, Gregor
Michelson, Albert
Noether, Emmy
Schrodinger, Erwin
Tesla, Nicolai
Wegener, Alfred
I know it’s not your list, but Tesla was never the number #1 scientist of each of his decades, much less of all time.
Eliminate:
Al-Biruni
Bardeen
Bernard
Dirac
McClintock
Meitner
Noether
Poincare
Keep:
Leakey
Leeuwenhoek
It’s getting like the NCAA basketball tournament – having to eliminate hopefuls who arguably deserve “bids”, but are running into the imperative to weed out the borderline cases.
McClintock, Borlaug, Doppler, and William Smith are probably goners this round.
There are ten other names that would be eliminated with only one more vote:
Top mathematical physicists. (Bardeen may seem out of place. He did invent the transistor; so there’s that.)
Bardeen, John
Dirac, Paul
Eratosthenes
Hawking, Stephen
Noether, Emmy
Schrodinger, Erwin
Very influential polymaths
Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad
Galen, of Pergamon
One of the “four founders of modern Chemistry.” (the other three are still on the list.)
Berzelius, Jacob
Founder of modern geology
Hutton, James
Looking over these names, great scientists every one, I do not envy those of you who must vote. It will be brutal to prune our list down to the Top 36.
Meh, keep Borlaug, Norman
Meh, keep Al-Biruni
Eliminate:
Stephen Hawking
Tesla, Nicolai
Dirac, Paul
Fermat, Pierre de
Gell-Mann, Murray
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van, for keeping his techniques secret.
Barbara McClintock
Meitner, Lise
I say the top 10 better be in the top 36. So who are the top 10?
(((Crap, Aristotle bit the dust.)))
(((Copernicus and/or Galileo)))
(((Darwin)))
(((Einstein)))
(((Newton)))
(((Gauss??)))
(((1 Quantum Mechanic: Heisenberg??)))
(((Niels Bohr for leadership??)))
That’s 8 or 9. Or 7. Are there any other must-haves? Are any of them clearly Not Great Enough?