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!
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.
**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
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.
Eliminate:
Al-Biruni
Al-Khwarizmi
Bardeen
Bernard
Gell-Mann
Meitner
Noether
Poincare
Keep:
Leakey
Leeuwenhoek
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
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
Eliminate:
Al-Biruni
Bernard
Berzelius
Hilleman
Meitner
Pauli
Poincare
Wegener
Keep:
Leakey
Leeuwenhoek
Evict:
Al-Biruni
Bernard
Berzelius
Hilleman
Meitner
Pauli
Poincare
Rutherford
Wegener
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
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:
After, reading about the germ theory of disease, I’m disappointed that nobody nominated (((John Snow))) 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
@ 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:
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
**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
Evict:
Bernard, Claude
Borlaug, Norman
Galen, of Pergamon
Jenner, Edward
Mach, Ernst
Michelson, Albert
Pauli, Wolfgang
Schrodinger, Erwin
Eliminate:
Bernard
Dalton
Feynman
Franklin, Rosalind
Hilleman
Meitner
Pauli
Keep:
Leakey
Leeuwenhoek
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?
**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
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.
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