Pretty much agree there. the final round for religion will be a coin toss between
Mohammed and Paul, but Jesus is in the top three! I would have ranked him lower if Luther and Augustine were still around, but I’m a sucker for actual physical evidence.
Last day for round 13…
Invention: Joseph Lister
Leaders: Josef Stalin
Philosophy: William Shakespeare
Religion: St. Paul
Science: Max Planck
Round 13 is over!
Category, Name, Number of Votes
I, Joseph Lister, 11
L, Mao Zedong, 5
P, Francis Bacon, 4
R, Buddha, 8
S, John Dalton, 9
Names Remaining:
Inventors
Alexander Fleming, Scientist, Invented Penicillin
Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Scientist, Inventor of Microscope
Edward Jenner, Scientist, Developed Vaccination for Smallpox
James Watt, British Scientist, Invented Steam Engine
Johann Gutenberg, Scientist, Inventor of Printing Press
Thomas Edison, American Scientist, 1,000+ inventions
Ts’ai Lun, Scientist, Inventor of Paper
Leaders
Augustus Caesar, Roman Princep, Founded Roman Empire
Genghis Khan, Mongol Ruler, Founded Mongol Empire
George Washington, American Statesman and General, Fought For Independence of United States
Josef Stalin, Dictator of USSR, Expanded Communism
Julius Caesar, Roman General, Ended Roman Civil Wars
Lenin, Russian Leader, Founded Communism in Russia
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, Waged Napoleonic Wars
Sui Wen Ti, Chinese Emperor, Reunited China
William the Conquerer, Norman Duke and English King, Led In Norman Conquest of England
Philosophers
Adam Smith, Economist, Advocated Capitalism
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
Confucius, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Confucianism
John Locke, British Philosopher, Developed Democratic Ideas
Karl Marx, Economist, Founder of Communism
Plato, Greek Philosopher, Developed Platonism
William Shakespeare, English Playwright
Religion
Jesus Christ, Founder of Christianity
Mohammed, Founder of Islam
Moses, Jewish Prophet
St Paul, Christian Missionary and Apostle
Scientists
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Physicist, Theory of Relativity
Charles Darwin, British Scientist, Theory of Evolution
Euclid, Greek Mathematician
Isaac Newton, British Scientist, Theory of Universal Gravitation and Motion
Johannes Kepler, Scientist, Developed Theories of Planetary Motion
Louis Pasteur, Scientist, Pasteurization, Germ Theory of Disease
Max Planck, Scientist, Developed Therodynamics
Michael Faraday, British Scientist, Discovered Electromagnetism
My nominees are (lost 4 of 5)
Inventors. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leaders. Josef Stalin
Philosophy. Karl Marx
Religion. Mohammed
Science. Johannes Kepler
Leeuwnehoek, Stalin, and Marx are pretty easy choices, given their categories and remaining names.
Mohammed? Yeah, I’m a homer. Sue me. He was influenced by Moses and Jesus, and frankly, Christianity has had a deeper and longer impact on the globe’s affairs, especially since 1453, than Islam.
Kepler… it’s not that you’re not worthy, it’s just that the other guys are just slightly more so.
Inventors. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leaders. Josef Stalin
Philosophy. Shakespeare
Religion. Mohammed
Science. Johannes Kepler
Inventions. Edison
Leaders. William the Conqueror
Philosophy. Locke
Religion. Moses
Science. Max Planck
Inventions. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leader. George Washington
Philosophy. John Locke
Religion. Moses
Science. Michael Faraday
Inventor. Alexander Fleming
Leader. William the Conqueror
Philosophy. John Locke
Religion. St. Paul
Science. Max Planck
Can’t believe Lister hung on so long, but he’s finally gone. Fleming just beat out Jenner in my quest to winnow the “medicine men” from the field.
Paul – sorry, but the religion’s not named after you, nor did you found it.
Max – congrats on making science’s Elite Eight, but it’s time for you to go.
Other two choices are holdovers.
Doing my part to save the virtual environment, A 100% recycled list:
Inventor. James Watt
Leader. William the Conquerer
Philosophy. Plato
Religion. Paul
Science. Johannes Kepler
Inventors: Alexander Fleming
Leaders: Josef Stalin
Philosophy: William Shakespeare
Religion: St. Paul
Scientists: Max Planck
Invention: Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leaders: William the Conqueror
Philosophy: Adam Smith
Religion: Moses
Science: Johannes Kepler
Invention. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leader. Julius Caesar
Philosophy. Confucius
Religion. Moses
Science. Max Planck
Only a new face in Science. Planck Institute or not, Max can’t roll higher than a four.
Inventors. Edward Jenner
Leaders. Napoleon Bonaparte
Philosophy. Adam Smith
Religion. Moses
Science. Max Planck
Inventions. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leader. Napoleon Bonaparte
Philosophy. Plato
Religion. Moses
Science. Johannes Kepler
Inventors. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leaders. Josef Stalin
Philosophers. Adam Smith
Religion. Moses
Scientists. Louis Pasteur
I’m gonna push for Jesus to go before Paul. Without Paul driving post-Jesus Christianity it would never have gotten as far as it did. (Sorry.)
Inventors. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leaders. Josef Stalin
Philosophers. John Locke
Religion. Moses
Scientists. Max Planck
Inventors. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leaders. Josef Stalin
Philosophy. Plato
Religion. Moses
Science. Johannes Kepler
Hey, a clean sweep.
It just means I’m going to have to start thinking hard again.
Invention. Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leaders. Genghis Khan
Philosophy. John Locke
Religion. Mohammed
Science. Michael Faraday
I’m guessing that Josef Stalin bites it this round, but just think if he had negotiated a temporary peace with Germany during WWII, not counting his opening alliance in 1939.
Invention: Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Leaders: William the Conqueror
Philosophy: Adam Smith
Religion: Moses
Science: Johannes Kepler
Everyone left on the list is, obviously, brilliant ind important, but germ theory wasn’t widely accepted for more than a century after the death of Antony van Leeuwenhoek, which means his microscopes were more a neat toy, in his day, than a true means of advancing science.