The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 79Wernher von BraunScientists3–01544
2. 179John von NeumannScientists2–01530
3. 257Dennis RitchieScientists1–01517
4. 348Jonas SalkScientists1–01515
5. 356Carl SaganScientists1–01515
6. 371Chien-Shiung WuScientists2–11515
7. 384Margaret HamiltonScientists3–21514
8. 449Katherine JohnsonScientists1–11501
9. 460Philo FarnsworthScientists2–21501
10. 469Vint CerfScientists1–11501
11. 502Dorothy VaughanScientists1–11500
12. 536Enrico FermiScientists1–11500
13. 545Robert NoyceScientists2–21499
14. 550Grace HopperScientists1–11499
15. 632Norman BorlaugScientists1–21488
16. 634Anthony FauciScientists2–31487
17. 727Charles DrewScientists0–11484
18. 760Temple GrandinScientists0–11484
19. 777Rachel CarsonScientists0–11483
20. 831Sylvia EarleScientists1–31474
21. 884Claude ShannonScientists0–21469
22. 897J. Robert OppenheimerScientists1–31469
23. 938E. O. WilsonScientists1–31468
24. 942Richard FeynmanScientists1–31468
25. 945Barbara McClintockScientists0–21467
26. 960Linus PaulingScientists1–41459
27. 984Gordon MooreScientists0–31455
28. 991Virginia ApgarScientists0–31454
29. 998Michio KakuScientists0–31454
30. 1041Hedy LamarrScientists0–51428
31. 1043Vera RubinScientists0–51426