Here I present: “Greatest Scientists Ranked: #18 Linus Pauling”. The listing of the top 20 scientist of all time is given BELOW.
SCIENTIST RANKINGS.
1. Isaac Newton.
Laws of motion, gravity, calculus, optics — foundational to modern science.
2. Albert Einstein.
Relativity, photon theory, quantum foundations.
3. Charles Darwin.
Theory of evolution by natural selection; unifying biology.
4. Galileo Galilei.
Telescopic astronomy, kinematics, scientific method.
5. James Clerk Maxwell.
Unified electricity, magnetism, and light.
6. Michael Faraday.
Electromagnetic induction, electrochemistry.
7. Marie Curie.
Pioneer of radioactivity; only person with two Nobel Prizes in two sciences.
8. Johannes Kepler.
Laws of planetary motion; mathematical astronomy.
9. Niels Bohr.
Quantum atomic model, complementarity.
10. Louis Pasteur.
Germ theory, vaccination, microbiology.
11. Aristotle.
Logic, biology, natural philosophy; influence spanning millennia.
12. Max Planck.
Founder of quantum theory.
13. Richard Feynman.
Quantum electrodynamics, path integrals, pedagogy.
14. Antoine Lavoisier.
Chemical revolution, conservation of mass.
15. Dmitri Mendeleev.
Periodic table, chemical periodicity.
16. Gregor Mendel.
Genetics founder — particulate inheritance.
17. Erwin Schrödinger.
Wave mechanics; key quantum formulations.
18. Linus Pauling.
Chemical bond theory, molecular biology; two unshared Nobel Prizes.
19. Leonardo da Vinci.
Anatomy, engineering, optics — pre-modern scientific polymath.
20. Nikola Tesla.
Alternating current, electromagnetism, wireless concepts.
DISCUSSION.
New Scientist magazine listed the 20 greatest scientist of all time. Linus Pauling is on the list ranked #18 for “molecular biology”. TIME magazine listed James Watson & Francis Crick jointly as greatest “molecular biologists” of the 20th century for the year 1953 discovery of double-helix DNA. Linus Pauling as an individual, not jointly was among the greatest biochemist of the 20th century. In the year 1953 Linus Pauling published triple-helix DNA shown ATOP blog post. Linus Pauling is known best for “chemical bond theory”.
