40 People in Science that Everyone Should Know

I (personally) think everyone should know Linnaeus, because of him, we label organisms in a way that is easy and universal. He is the creator of the binomial nomenclature (meaning animal names are made up of the name of their genus and their species). He's is the "Father of modern Taxonomy". (but maybe I'm just fangirling :P )

I think Meucci should be accepted for the telephone question. Nice idea!

I think Edward Jenner should be included in this group. His early work vaccinating people showed the way.

Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand physicist) was the first person to split the atom, he developed the nuclear model of the atom, he discovered alpha and beta rays, and proposed the laws of radioactive decay. He received a Nobel Prize on his discovery that the structure of elements can change. He is on the NZ $100 note, and my children attended Rutherford Primary School and Rutherford High School.

Alexander Fleming, did not discover penicillin. It was Clodomiro Picado.

While Bohr made the first model of an atom using quantum physics, his was certainly not the first model of an atom. See Dalton, Thomson, etc.

A nice selection of scientists, but many flaws unfortunately. A lot of feats can be attributed to Galileo, but the creation of the telescope is not one of them. I wouldn't say Copernicus 'proved' his theory. It was Jenner who created the first vaccine. There had been many models of the atom before Bohr's. And this is only the first column.

Also, why include ancient mathematicians but no modern ones?

Interesting list, but Jenner invented the vaccine about a quarter century before Pasteur was even born.

37 men and 3 women... You could've at least given Rosalind Franklin some credit instead of including James Watson.

Love the quiz, but agree with all the previous comments:

Socrates is usually considered the father of western philosophy

Francis Crick is usually credited along with Watson in the discovery of the DNA helix structure

Edward Jenner made a smallpox vaccine before Pasteur was born

Bohr developed atomic models already created by the likes of Thompson and Rutherford

Edison did not invent the lightbulb

Bell did not invent the telephone

Galileo made substantial improvements to previous telescopes, but did not invent it

Also, I would like to have seen Mendeleev, Linnaeus, Celsius, Hubble, Wallace, Volta, Higgs and Sagan