Inventions. Orville and Wilbur Wright
Leader. Mikhail Gorbachev
Philosophy and Arts. Rene Descartes
Religion. ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab
Science. Antonine Laurent Lavoisier
Inventors. Alexander Graham Bell
Leaders. Mikhail Gorbachev
Philosophy and the Arts. Rene Descartes
Religion. Umar ibn al-Khattab
Scientists. Antonine Laurent Lavoisier
Invention. Alexander Graham Bell
Leader. Peter the Great
Philosophy. Voltaire
Religion. Justinian
Science. Werner Heisenberg
Two new: A. G. Bell mainly because I wanted to vote for an inventor after booting 2 explorers; Heisenberg because there were so many great minds who contributed to quantum physics it’s hard to see any one of them as indispensible.
Inventors. Hernando Cortes
Leaders. Peter the Great
Philosophy and the Arts. Nicoli Machiavelli
Religion. Justinian I
Scientists. Johannes Kepler
I think I have 3/5 repeats:
Inventor. Orville and Wilbur Wright
Leaders. Charlemagne
Philosophy: Voltaire
Regligion: Pope Urban II
Scientists: Werner Heisenberg
For religion, I’m surprised at the Calvin votes. Calvinism/reformed theology is still a very strong and influential thread of modern Christianity and Presbyterianism is a major denomination in the west.
Invention. Hernando Cortes
Leader. Genghis Khan
Philosophy. Michelangelo
Religion. Pope Urban II
Science. Antonine Laurent Lavoisier
Last day for round 5…
7 more hours…
Eh, close enough. Round 5 is over!
The losers are…
Category, Name, # of votes
I, Hernando Cortes, 8
R, Justinian I, 4
L, Mikhail Gorbachev, 5
P, Rene Descrates, 5
S, Werner Heisenberg, 5
Heisenberg is the ranking loser @ # 41, while 2 more in the 90’s (Gorbachev and Justinian) are gone. All of the explorers are now history (yuck-yuck), so there are only inventors left in the first category.
As of the fifth round our lowest ranked person still on the list is #98, Homer, and the highest kicked off is #9, Christopher Columbus.
Here are the remaining candidates:
Inventors
Alexander Fleming, Scientist, Invented Penicillin
Alexander Graham Bell, Scientist, Invented Telephone
Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Scientist, Inventor of Microscope
Edward Jenner, Scientist, Developed Vaccination for Smallpox
Gugilemo Marconi, Scientist, Invented Radio
Henry Ford, American Industrialist, Developed Mass Production Techniques
James Watt, British Scientist, Invented Steam Engine
Johann Gutenberg, Scientist, Inventor of Printing Press
Joseph Lister, Scientist, Developed Antiseptic Methods
Louis Dagurre, Scientist, Invented Photography
Nikolaus August Otto, Scientist, Developed Internal Combustion Engine
Orville and Wilbur Wright, Scientists, Inventor of Airplane
Thomas Edison, American Scientist, 1,000+ inventions
Ts’ai Lun, Scientist, Inventor of Paper
William TG Morton, Scientist, Invented Anaesthesia
Leaders
Adolf Hitler, German Dictator, Started World War II
Alexander the Great, Macedonian Ruler, Formed Macedonian Empire
Augustus Caesar, Roman Princep, Founded Roman Empire
Charlemagne, Frankish Monarch, Founder of Holy Roman Empire
Cyrus the Great, Persian Emperor, Founded Persian Emperor
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
Mao Zedong, Chinese Dictator, Established Communism in China
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, Waged Napoleonic Wars
Peter the Great, Russian Emperor, Modernized Russia
Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Made England a Naval Power
Queen Isabella I, Queen of Spain, Sponsored Columbus’ Expeditions
Sui Wen Ti, Chinese Emperor, Reunited China
William the Conquerer, Norman Duke and English King, Led In Norman Conquest of England
Philosophy and the Arts
Adam Smith, Economist, Advocated Capitalism
Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
Confucius, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Confucianism
Francis Bacon, Philosopher, Developed Scientific Method
Homer, Greek Poet, Writer of Epics
John Locke, British Philosopher, Developed Democratic Ideas
Karl Marx, Economist, Founder of Communism
Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher, Founded Taoism
Ludwig von Beethoven, Composer
Michelangelo, Artist, Sculptor
Nicoli Machiavelli, Political Theorist
Plato, Greek Philosopher, Developed Platonism
Thomas Jefferson, American Statesman, Wrote Declaration of Independence, Louisiana Purchase
Voltaire, French Philosopher
William Shakespeare, English Playwright
Religion
‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, Muslim Caliph, Expanded the Caliphate
Asoka, Indian Emperor, Spread Buddhism
Buddha, Founder of Buddhism
Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor, Tolerated and Promoted Christianity in Rome
Jesus Christ, Founder of Christianity
John Calvin, Christian Theologian, Developed Calvinism
Martin Luther, Theologian, Started Protestantism and Reformation
Mohammed, Founder of Islam
Moses, Jewish Prophet
Pope Urban II, Pope of Roman Catholic Church, Called For Crusades
St Augustine, Christian Theologian
St Paul, Christian Missionary and Apostle
Science
Albert Einstein, Scientist, Physicist, Theory of Relativity
Antonine Laurent Lavoisier, French Scientist, Advanced Chemistry
Charles Darwin, British Scientist, Theory of Evolution
Enrico Fermi, Scientist, Developed Atomic Bomb
Ernest Rutherford, Scientist, Developed Subatomic Physics
Euclid, Greek Mathematician
Galileo Galilei, Scientist, Advocated Heliocentricity
Isaac Newton, British Scientist, Theory of Universal Gravitation and Motion
James Clerk Marxwell, Scientist, Electromagnetism
Johannes Kepler, Scientist, Developed Theories of Planetary Motion
John Dalton, Scientist, Atomic Theory
Leonhard Euler, Mathematician
Louis Pasteur, Scientist, Pasteurization, Germ Theory of Disease
Max Planck, Scientist, Developed Therodynamics
Michael Faraday, British Scientist, Discovered Electromagnetism
Nicolas Copernicus, Scientist, Theory of Heliocentricity
Inventors. Alexander Graham Bell
Leaders. Queen Isabella I
Philosophy. Nicoli Machiavelli
Religion. John Calvin
Science. Antonine Laurent Lavoisier
Kills me to vote against Bell as we Scots need to stick together, but the fact is that he barely beat his competition to the patent office.
Invention is a category which, for me, the easy fruit has already been plucked.
Invention.Alexander Graham Bell
Leader.Cyrus the Great
Arts.Ludwig von Beethoven
Religion.Asoka
Science.Galileo Galilei
Inventions. Orville and Wilbur Wright
Leader. Cyrus the Great
Philosophy and Arts. Michelangelo
Religion. ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab
Science. Antonine Laurent Lavoisier
Invention. Alexander Graham Bell
Leader. Mikhail Gorbachev
Philosophy. Nicoli Machiavelli
Religion. John Calvin
Science. Johannes Kepler
Inventions. Orville and Wilbur Wright
Leader. Charlemagne
Philosophy. Ludwig von Beethoven
Religion. Moses
Science. Galileo Galilei
sohvan, Gorbachev is gone already.
Inventors. Alexander Graham Bell
Leaders. Queen Isabella I
Philosophy. Nicoli Machiavelli
Religion. 'Umar ibn al-Khattab
Science. Antonine Laurent Lavoisier
Ow, that’s what I get for posting in the morning. I suppose it’s too late to change it now, so it’ll have to remain empty for this round.
Inventors. William TG Morton
Leaders. Charlemagne
Philosophy. Voltaire
Religion. Moses
Science. Nicolas Copernicus
Comment on Leaders:
Cyrus the Great and Shi Huang Di would be near the top of my personal list of influential leaders; I’m very surprised to see them getting votes already. I suppose Isabella is the bandwagon choice for this round, for those trying to save Cyrus, but I’ll contribute to a possible Charlemagne bandwagon instead. His short-lived empire is famous, to some extent, just because of the Pope’s gratitude for defeating the heathen Lombards.
I’m doing my best - I’ve voted for him the last several rounds. I really don’t see why others think he is all that influential.
Inventor. Orville and Wilbur Wright
Leader. Queen Isabella I
Philosophy. Homer
Religion. Pope Urban II
Science. Johannes Kepler
Inventor. Alexander Graham Bell
Leader. Peter the Great
Philosophy. Voltaire
Religion. John Calvin
Science. Copernicus
Two new here - Calvin is at best the fifth-most-influential Christian on the list; his only real competition is Urban, and I think (for good or ill) starting the Crusades is more of an influence than playing second fiddle in the Reformation. Copernicus’s model was no better at actually predicting astronomical events than the prevailing geocentric model - it was Brahe and particularly Kepler who got it to actually work.
ETA: I’d like to hear someone make an affirmative case for Asoka in the Religion category, or I’m likely to start voting for him soon.
Inventor. Orville and Wilbur Wright
Leader. Isabella
Philosophy. Ludwig von Beethoven
Religion. John Calvin
Science. Johannes Kepler