The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 26Albert EinsteinScientists10–01634
2. 33Alexander Graham BellScientists52–141631
3. 37The Wright BrothersScientists14–41627
4. 53Carl SaganScientists14–31613
5. 73Jonas SalkScientists10–11605
6. 136Thomas EdisonScientists9–31581
7. 137Barbara McClintockScientists12–61580
8. 169Bill NyeScientists15–101572
9. 175Nikola TeslaScientists11–51570
10. 184Jennifer DoudnaScientists10–41567
11. 233Neil deGrasse TysonScientists9–51555
12. 277Robert NoyceScientists7–41545
13. 295Percy JulianScientists8–51542
14. 317George Washington CarverScientists7–51538
15. 332Elizabeth BlackwellScientists9–61535
16. 357Charles GoodyearScientists25–191530
17. 360Edwin HubbleScientists7–51530
18. 387Dorothy VaughanScientists7–51526
19. 440J. Robert OppenheimerScientists10–111516
20. 445Margaret HamiltonScientists10–81515
21. 490Samuel MorseScientists7–61507
22. 491Richard FeynmanScientists8–91507
23. 532Katherine JohnsonScientists9–81499
24. 533Wernher von BraunScientists6–51499
25. 601Anthony FauciScientists8–91487
26. 610Gordon MooreScientists5–71484
27. 613Steve WozniakScientists5–71483
28. 626Charles DrewScientists4–61482
29. 642Chien-Shiung WuScientists7–81480
30. 669Philo FarnsworthScientists9–121474
31. 747George EastmanScientists4–71457
32. 753Vint CerfScientists4–81456
33. 761Grace HopperScientists6–101455
34. 793Virginia ApgarScientists4–81448
35. 795Eli WhitneyScientists7–111448
36. 810Temple GrandinScientists5–101444
37. 814Linus PaulingScientists5–111441
38. 819John von NeumannScientists7–121441
39. 862Dennis RitchieScientists4–101432
40. 895Buckminster FullerScientists6–141423
41. 900Norman BorlaugScientists5–111422
42. 908Robert GoddardScientists3–91420
43. 924Benjamin BannekerScientists4–111415
44. 950Hedy LamarrScientists5–161409
45. 952Sylvia EarleScientists10–181409
46. 958Enrico FermiScientists2–91406
47. 959Michio KakuScientists2–101406
48. 968E. O. WilsonScientists4–131403
49. 978Vera RubinScientists2–111399
50. 987Rachel CarsonScientists2–101396
51. 1006Claude ShannonScientists4–131383
52. 1010George WestinghouseScientists2–111381