To be perfectly fair, Emmett Kelly has a deliberately more recognizable face than Norman Borlaug, too.
I knew seven out of ten, couldn’t get the three in the paintings. But when I clicked on them I recognized the names.
The people on the left are famous for their writings, the one in the right is famous for her looks. I probably know all the scientists but never cared what they look like so I can only recognize a few.
She’s actually more famous, or I should say notorious, for her stupidity.
Interesting question: Does being familiar with great thinkers (scientists, writers, etc.) correlate negatively, positively, or not at all with being familiar with pop culture celebrities?
I recognized the image of Paine, but it took me a bit of searching memory files to name him. He’s definitely out of place, although still a great mind.
Neither he nor the woman above him, are not iconic like the others. Freud, while iconic, was an idiot and shouldn’t be listed.
A “popularizer” of science is as important as the others, especially given the context that the general public ought to know who these people are. And Sagan IS a genius in his ability to get through to the idiots that comprise the unwashed masses.
I never realized before that Tesla looks a lot like a Three Stooges regular, Emil Sitka.
The scientist are great ones but also celebrities.
If you’d had Heisenberg, Ohm, Bohr, Roentgen, Maxwell, Rosalind Franklin, Watson, Crick, and Leibniz, you could’ve made it a million times more difficult even to very scientifically literate people.
Except for Elion, I know who each of the people on the left are, and I even recognized most of their pictures, but there were a few whose picture I did not recognize. Is knowing what some famous people look like really a requirement for not being what’s wrong with this world?
And I did recognize that the person on the right is someone connected to something called “Kardashians” but only because some level of exposure to even the basest of popular culture is unavoidable, try as we might to avoid it.
I guess I should hang my head in shame for being instrumental in destroying the world. :o
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
He was genius on Beverly Hills 90210.
You avoided it pretty good. She has nothing to do with the Kardashians other than they are reality TV stars. Snooki was on Jersey Shore. Her 15 minutes have been up for a while.
FTR I got everyone except for column 3 and I halfway thought it was Newton but couldn’t remember exactly what he looked like.
I feel like Freud set psychology back more than he helped to lead it forward, so I wouldn’t mind too much if people didn’t know his face. I’d rather Ulrich Neisser or someone who actually applied science to the question to be there.
I had never heard of Gertrude B. Elion.
The others I at least know by reputation, and I have actually read some Freud. I immediately recognized Hawking, of course. Einstein, Sagan, Darwin, Newton, and Freud were easy, particularly in context, and I think I’ve seen that picture of Nicola Tesla before. I actually guessed Marie Curie for both the women, but realized it must be the one I noticed second, with the specialized glassware.
Anyway, the important thing about each of these persons is not what they look like. I know who Thomas Paine was, I don’t have to recognize his picture. This is a silly and mean webpage.
Wait, wait, wait. Are you calling Freud beneficial?
I kid, but I kind of thought the same as Sage Rat. He is, perhaps unfortunately, quite recognizable, though.