The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 79Wernher von BraunScientists3–01544
2. 87Alexander Graham BellScientists4–11544
3. 179John von NeumannScientists2–01530
4. 257Dennis RitchieScientists1–01517
5. 297Albert EinsteinScientists1–01516
6. 327Steve WozniakScientists1–01515
7. 348Jonas SalkScientists1–01515
8. 356Carl SaganScientists1–01515
9. 364Thomas EdisonScientists2–11515
10. 371Chien-Shiung WuScientists2–11515
11. 384Margaret HamiltonScientists3–21514
12. 401George Washington CarverScientists1–01513
13. 449Katherine JohnsonScientists1–11501
14. 460Philo FarnsworthScientists2–21501
15. 469Vint CerfScientists1–11501
16. 502Dorothy VaughanScientists1–11500
17. 520Jennifer DoudnaScientists0–01500
18. 533Bill NyeScientists2–21500
19. 536Enrico FermiScientists1–11500
20. 543Nikola TeslaScientists2–21500
21. 545Robert NoyceScientists2–21499
22. 550Grace HopperScientists1–11499
23. 608Elizabeth BlackwellScientists3–31497
24. 613Percy JulianScientists2–21497
25. 618The Wright BrothersScientists1–11496
26. 632Norman BorlaugScientists1–21488
27. 634Anthony FauciScientists2–31487
28. 694Edwin HubbleScientists1–21485
29. 719Charles GoodyearScientists0–11485
30. 727Charles DrewScientists0–11484
31. 757George WestinghouseScientists0–11484
32. 760Temple GrandinScientists0–11484
33. 777Rachel CarsonScientists0–11483
34. 801George EastmanScientists0–11483
35. 803Eli WhitneyScientists0–11483
36. 823Samuel MorseScientists2–31481
37. 831Sylvia EarleScientists1–31474
38. 841Neil deGrasse TysonScientists1–31472
39. 863Buckminster FullerScientists2–41470
40. 884Claude ShannonScientists0–21469
41. 897J. Robert OppenheimerScientists1–31469
42. 914Benjamin BannekerScientists0–21469
43. 938E. O. WilsonScientists1–31468
44. 942Richard FeynmanScientists1–31468
45. 945Barbara McClintockScientists0–21467
46. 960Linus PaulingScientists1–41459
47. 984Gordon MooreScientists0–31455
48. 991Virginia ApgarScientists0–31454
49. 998Michio KakuScientists0–31454
50. 999Robert GoddardScientists0–31454
51. 1041Hedy LamarrScientists0–51428
52. 1043Vera RubinScientists0–51426