Greatest Scientists Ever: Elimination Game

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.)

I think it’s probably time to ditch the “Keep” option. Or we need more players.

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.

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

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.)

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.

**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

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

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

Out they go…

Brahmagpta
Cannon, Annie Jump
Eratosthenes
Hawking, Stephen
Hutton, James
Meitner, Lise
Pauli, Wolfgang
Shannon, Claude
Thales
Thorne, Kip
Zhang Heng

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

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

ELIMINATE:

Babbage, Charles
Cannon, Annie Jump
Fleming, Alexander
Galen, of Pergamon
Harvey, William
Lovelace, Ada
Mead, Margaret
Oppenheimer, Robert
Pauling, Linus
Thales

Keep:

Eratosthenes

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.

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.

I think I already mentioned that votes are carried over to subsequent rounds unless explicitly changed or revoked.

**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

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. 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