The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 53Carl SaganScientists14–31613
2. 73Jonas SalkScientists10–11605
3. 137Barbara McClintockScientists12–61580
4. 277Robert NoyceScientists7–41545
5. 387Dorothy VaughanScientists7–51526
6. 440J. Robert OppenheimerScientists10–111516
7. 445Margaret HamiltonScientists10–81515
8. 491Richard FeynmanScientists8–91507
9. 532Katherine JohnsonScientists9–81499
10. 533Wernher von BraunScientists6–51499
11. 601Anthony FauciScientists8–91487
12. 610Gordon MooreScientists5–71484
13. 626Charles DrewScientists4–61482
14. 642Chien-Shiung WuScientists7–81480
15. 669Philo FarnsworthScientists9–121474
16. 753Vint CerfScientists4–81456
17. 761Grace HopperScientists6–101455
18. 793Virginia ApgarScientists4–81448
19. 810Temple GrandinScientists5–101444
20. 814Linus PaulingScientists5–111441
21. 819John von NeumannScientists7–121441
22. 862Dennis RitchieScientists4–101432
23. 900Norman BorlaugScientists5–111422
24. 950Hedy LamarrScientists5–161409
25. 952Sylvia EarleScientists10–181409
26. 958Enrico FermiScientists2–91406
27. 959Michio KakuScientists2–101406
28. 968E. O. WilsonScientists4–131403
29. 978Vera RubinScientists2–111399
30. 987Rachel CarsonScientists2–101396
31. 1006Claude ShannonScientists4–131383