Here I present: Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 YEARS: 1000 PEOPLE: Ranking the Men and Women who Shaped the Millennium”, 1998.
INTRODUCTION.
This book is a ranking of people in all areas of endeavor. The person who ranked number one (#1) was Johannes Gutenberg the printer. My list BELOW consists of other 100 “technical” persons besides #1 Johannes Gutenberg from the book This is a list of 100 “technical” from the 1000 people from all endeavors.
SCIENTIFIC LIST.
1. Gutenberg, Johannes
2. Galilei, Galileo
3. Newton, Isaac
4. Darwin, Charles
5. Leonardo da Vinci
6. Freud, Sigmund
7. Einstein, Albert
8. Copernicus, Nicholas
9. Descartes, Rene
10. Pasteur, Louis
11. Kepler, Johannes
12. Harvey, William
13. Ford, Henry
14. Franklin, Benjamin
15. Fleming, Alexander
16. Lavoisier, Antoine
17. Curie, Marie
18. Bacon, Francis
19. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
20. Jenner, Edward
21. Mendel, Gregor
22. Leeuwenhoek, Anton Van
23. Gauss, Carl
24. Faraday, Michael
25. Watson, James
26. Morgan, Thomas Hunt
27. Rutherford, Ernest
28. Planck, Max
29. Boyle, Robert
30. Goddard, Robert
31. Cook, James
32. Brahe, Tycho
33. Maxwell, James Clark
34. Bohr, Niels
35. Koch, Robert
36. Nobel, Alfred
37. Linnaeus, Carl
38. Vesalius, Andreas
39. Pavlov, Ivan
40. Ehrlich, Paul
41. Mendeleev, Dmitri
42. Fahrenheit, Daniel
43. Leonardo of Pisa
44. Celsius, Anders
45. Rontgen, Wilhelm Conrad
46. Baekeland, Leo Hendrix
47. Malthus, Thomas
48. Salk, Jonas
49. Huygens, Christiaan
50. Babbage, Charles
51. Fermat, Pierre
52. Carson, Rachel
53. Mead, Margaret
54. Fermi, Enrico
55. Bacon, Roger
56. Carothers, Wallace Hume
57. Borel, Jean Francois
58. Turing, Alan
59. Lumière, Louis
60. Hertz, Heinrich
61. Banting, Frederick Grant
62. Eastman, George
63. Galvani, Luigi
64. Lyell, Charles
65. Lindbergh, Charles
66. Verne, Jules
67. Hopkins, Frederick
68. Hubble, Edwin
69. Goodyear, Charles
70. Swanson, Robert
71. Wilmut, Ian
72. Regiomontanus, Johannes
73. Burbank, Luther
74. Gamon, George
75. Cousteau, Jacques
76. Armstrong, Neil
77. Livingstone, David
78. Albertus Magnus
79. Boas, Franz
80. Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
81. Fuller, Buckminster
82. Gibbs, J. Willard
83. Stevin, Simon
84. Kinsey, Alfred
85. Ramazzini, Bernardo
86. Napier, John
87. Pestalozzi, Johann
88. Wiley, Harvey
89. Philidor, Francois-Andre
90. Malphigji, Marcello
91 Hammond, John H. Jr.
92. Chomsky, Noam
93. Reber, Grote
94. Braille, Louis
95. Lovelace, Ada Byron
96. Riva-Rocci, Sciopone
97. Laennec, Rene
98. Korolyov, Sergey
99. Williams, Daniel Hale
100. Pemberton, John
Here I presented: Gottlieb & Bowers, “1000 YEARS: 1000 PEOPLE: Ranking the Men and Women who Shaped the Millennium”, 1998. Johannes Regiomontanus (#72 ABOVE) was the founder of the first scientific press in the world in 1471. Johannes Regiomontanus was a significant figure leading to the 1543 Scientific Revolution.
COMMENTS.
This is a book about the last millennium. However, written history goes back over fifty-five centuries (5,500 years). Gottlieb & Bowers ranked the printer Johannes Gutenberg as the number one (#1) most influential person of last millennium. The institutions of: City, Writing, Printing, Publishing & Archiving are shown ABOVE in historical timeline. Writing began in 3,500 BC Sumeria’ MESOPOTAMIA’; and printed writing after Johannes Gutenberg was the most significant event in the last millennium.
