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Scientists with the greatest impact on their field and the world and those who should be relegated to ranks of pseudoscience.

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▲ Top 5

Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

Alan Turing (1912–1954)

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895)

▼ Bottom 5

Humphry Davy (1778–1829)

-5

Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647)

-4

Alfred Nobel (1833–1896)

-3

Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)

-2

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)

-1

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Albert Einstein (1879–1955)+7

Charles Darwin (1809–1882)+4

Alan Turing (1912–1954)+3

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)+2

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895)+1

Isaac Newton (1643–1727)—

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)—

Marie Curie (1867–1934)—

Gregor Mendel (1822–1884)—

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630)—

Niels Bohr (1885–1962)—

Max Planck (1858–1947)—

Richard Feynman (1918–1988)—

James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)—

Michael Faraday (1791–1867)—

Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)—

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)—

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)—

Edward Teller (1908–2003)—

Francis Crick (1916–2004)—

James Watson (1928– )—

Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)—

Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)—

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907)—

Rachel Carson (1907–1964)—

Jane Goodall (1934– )—

Barbara McClintock (1902–1992)—

Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)—

Tim Berners-Lee (1955– )—

Katherine Johnson (1918–2020)—

Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)—

Fritz Haber (1868–1934)—

Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989)—

Linus Pauling (1901–1994)—

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)—

Abdus Salam (1926–1996)—

Tu Youyou (1930– )—

Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794)—

Robert Boyle (1627–1691)—

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)—

Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695)—

Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)—

William Harvey (1578–1657)—

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)—

Joseph Priestley (1733–1804)—

John Dalton (1766–1844)—

Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856)—

Georg Ohm (1789–1854)—

André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836)—

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827)—

Sadi Carnot (1796–1832)—

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806)—

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829)—

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859)—

Mary Anning (1799–1847)—

Justus von Liebig (1803–1873)—

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894)—

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926)—

Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)—

Pierre Curie (1859–1906)—

Paul Dirac (1902–1984)—

Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)—

Lev Landau (1908–1968)—

Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)—

Meghnad Saha (1893–1956)—

Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997)—

Lise Meitner (1878–1968)—

Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994)—

Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999)—

Jonas Salk (1914–1995)—

Albert Sabin (1906–1993)—

Kary Mullis (1944–2019)—

Craig Venter (1946– )—

Sydney Brenner (1927–2019)—

Peter Higgs (1929– )—

Donna Strickland (1959– )—

Frances Arnold (1956– )—

Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968– )—

Jennifer Doudna (1964– )—

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)-1

Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)-2

Alfred Nobel (1833–1896)-3

Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647)-4

Humphry Davy (1778–1829)-5

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