The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 19The Wright BrothersScientists13–21653
2. 29Albert EinsteinScientists10–01634
3. 31Alexander Graham BellScientists52–141631
4. 34Carl SaganScientists14–21628
5. 87Jonas SalkScientists9–11598
6. 136Thomas EdisonScientists9–31581
7. 177Bill NyeScientists15–101572
8. 196Barbara McClintockScientists11–61567
9. 199Jennifer DoudnaScientists8–31566
10. 220Nikola TeslaScientists10–51559
11. 238Katherine JohnsonScientists9–51555
12. 263Edwin HubbleScientists7–41549
13. 287Neil deGrasse TysonScientists8–51545
14. 288Robert NoyceScientists7–41545
15. 303Percy JulianScientists8–51542
16. 321George Washington CarverScientists7–51538
17. 334Elizabeth BlackwellScientists9–61535
18. 355Charles GoodyearScientists25–191530
19. 386Dorothy VaughanScientists7–51526
20. 444J. Robert OppenheimerScientists10–111516
21. 448Margaret HamiltonScientists10–81515
22. 494Samuel MorseScientists7–61507
23. 539Wernher von BraunScientists6–51499
24. 575Richard FeynmanScientists7–91490
25. 592Anthony FauciScientists8–91487
26. 603Gordon MooreScientists5–71484
27. 604Steve WozniakScientists5–71483
28. 615Charles DrewScientists4–61482
29. 629Chien-Shiung WuScientists7–81480
30. 662Philo FarnsworthScientists9–121474
31. 743George EastmanScientists4–71457
32. 767Temple GrandinScientists5–91453
33. 788Virginia ApgarScientists4–81448
34. 789Eli WhitneyScientists7–111448
35. 811Grace HopperScientists5–101442
36. 812Vint CerfScientists3–81441
37. 813Norman BorlaugScientists5–101441
38. 831John von NeumannScientists6–111437
39. 857Dennis RitchieScientists4–101432
40. 892Enrico FermiScientists2–71424
41. 897Claude ShannonScientists4–101423
42. 899Sylvia EarleScientists10–171423
43. 910Robert GoddardScientists3–91420
44. 914Linus PaulingScientists4–111419
45. 926Benjamin BannekerScientists4–111415
46. 943Buckminster FullerScientists5–131412
47. 949Rachel CarsonScientists2–91410
48. 957Michio KakuScientists2–101406
49. 966E. O. WilsonScientists4–131403
50. 984Vera RubinScientists2–111399
51. 1008George WestinghouseScientists2–111381
52. 1030Hedy LamarrScientists3–161364