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The 100 Most Influential Scientists of All Time (The Britannica Guide to the World's Most Influential People)
by: Kara Rogers

Asclepius 17
Hippocrates 18
Aristotle 22
Pliny the Elder 26
Ptolemy 29
Galen of Pergamum 32
Avicenna 36
Roger Bacon 37
Leonardo da Vinci 40
Nicolaus Copernicus 46
Paracelsus 50
Andreas Vesalius 54
Tycho Brahe 57
Giordano Bruno 59
Galileo 63
Johannes Kepler 69
William Harvey 74
Robert Boyle 79
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 81
Robert Hooke 84
John Ray 85
Sir Isaac Newton 88
Carolus Linnaeus 93
Henry Cavendish 97
Joseph Priestley 101
Luigi Galvani 105
Sir William Herschel 108
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier 112
Pierre-Simon Laplace 116
Edward Jenner 120
John Dalton 123
Georges Cuvier 126
Alexander von Humboldt 129
André-Marie Ampère 134
Amedeo Avogadro 138
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac 142
Sir Humphry Davy 145
Jöns Jacob Berzelius 149
John James Audubon 154
Michael Faraday 155
Sir Charles Lyell 162
Louis Agassiz 164
Charles Darwin 167
Sir Francis Galton 175
Gregor Mendel 178
Louis Pasteur 183
Alfred Russel Wallace 189
William Thomson 192
Joseph Lister 195
James Clerk Maxwell 199
Dmitry Ivanovich
Mendeleyev 202
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov 205
A.A. Michelson 208
Robert Koch 211
Sigmund Freud 215
Max Planck 222
Nettie Maria Stevens 226
William Bateson 227
Pierre Curie 228
Marie Curie 231
Henrietta Swan Leavitt 235
Ernest Rutherford 237
Carl Jung 242
Albert Einstein 244
Alfred Lothar Wegener 252
Sir Alexander Fleming 253
Niels Bohr 256
Erwin Schrödinger 260
Selman Abraham Waksman 263
Edwin Powell Hubble 264
Linus Pauling 267
Enrico Fermi 271
Margaret Mead 276
Barbara McClintock 278
Leakey Family 280
George Gamow 285
J. Robert Oppenheimer 287
Hans Bethe 291
Maria Goeppert Mayer 294
Rachel Carson 295
Jacques-Yves Cousteau 297
Luis W. Alvarez 300
Alan M. Turing 302
Norman Ernest Borlaug 306
Jonas Edward Salk 308
Sir Fred Hoyle 310
Francis Harry Compton Crick 311
James Dewey Watson 313
Richard P. Feynman 315
Rosalind Franklin 318
Edward O. Wilson 320
Jane Goodall 323
Sir Harold W. Kroto 325
Richard E. Smalley 326
Robert F. Curl, Jr. 327
Stephen Jay Gould 328
Stephen W. Hawking 330
J. Craig Venter 332
Francis Collins 335
Steven Pinker 337
Glossary 339
For Further Reading 341

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