1.
Albert Einstein
Give credit where credit is due...
125 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
2.
Charles Darwin
Did his part...
122 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
3.
Edwin Hubble
Starry, starry night...
58 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
4.
Thomas Edison
Second only to Einstein
49 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
5.
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology. In particular, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture. This consequently solved in the affirmative the Poincaré conjecture, posed in 1904, which before its solution was viewed as one of the most important and difficult open problems in topology.
Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal (with 1,000,000 $ prize), but he's declined to accept the award or to appear at the congress LOL
45 points - added 13 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
6.
Dmitri Mendeleev
chemical periodic table of elements
44 points - added 13 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
7.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Some mighty key contributions to the atomic bomb.
42 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
8.
Nikola Tesla
Never gets any credit. The way we use electricity was largely Tesla's idea....
36 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
9.
The Wright Brothers
First in Flight.
26 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
10.
James Watson
Discovered DNA
21 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
11.
Sigmund Freud
Just try to repress Frued on this list!
16 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
12.
Marie Curie
First person to win TWO Nobel Prizes--chemistry and physics.
14 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
13.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Physiologist. His scientific discoveries: human's reflex system; behavior modification ("Pavlov's dog") etc.
9 points - added 13 years ago by Samuil Svinin -
14.
Niels Bohr
7 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
15.
Jane Goodall
4 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
16.
Stephen Hawking
3 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
17.
Ernest Walton
Atom smasher.
3 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
18.
John Cockcroft
Split the atom with Walton.
2 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
19.
James Chadwick
2 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
20.
Othniel Charles Marsh
1 point - added 14 years ago by plink -
21.
John Tuzo Wilson
1 point - added 14 years ago by plink -
22.
Bill Gates
...is anybody going to say he isn't one of the top scientists?
-7 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
23.
Steve Jobs
Many achievements, but chief among them is his ability to make computers cool.
-10 points - added 14 years ago by plink -
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