My submission for Scientists LoC. I guess von Braun didn't make it after all. I'd honestly never heard of any of this stuff about Edison being a jerk until now. And I'm surprised Tesla ranked so high. Probably a connection there., if that article is to be believed.
1 Issac Newton - He came up with all those Laws of Physics that people (eventually) took for granted for centuries. Turned out later he was only slightly wrong. Also, Calculus.
2 Galileo Galilei - "Might I suggest that we AREN'T the center of the universe". Apparently that didn't go over so well. Actually I think I got Coppernicus and Galileo mixed up a little here.
3 Max Plank - You know you're a big name scientist when you have a Universal Constant named after you.
4 Albert Einstein - Yeah, E=mc^2 and all that. What I'm impressed by is that he took the known fact that the speed of light is a constant, compared it with Newton's Laws, and realized,"This doesn't really work". Thus: Relativity.
5 Charles Babbage - Designed the first computer... A century before computers existed. Everything was gears, rods and levers, and it was never actually built. But the design was astonishly similar to how modern CPU's operate.
6 Wernher von Braun - German defector who led the design of the Saturn 5 rocket. Yeah, the one that went to the moon
7 Michael Faraday - You know all those little electric motors and servos? You can thank Faraday for those.
8 Archimedes
9 Marie Curie
10 Werner Heisenburg
11 Thomas Edison
12 Leonardo da Vinci
13 Richard Feynman
14 Steven Hawking
15 Neil DeGrasse Tyson
16 Johannes Kepler
17 Thomas Hunt Morgan (The fruit fly guy. He took Medel's theories of inheritance, applied it to generations of fruit flies, and used those results to work out how genes works, and how they're carried on chromosomes. In my mind I kinda combined Morgan and Mendel, and so forgot Mendel's contributions. Together, they founded modern genetics.
18 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Few people realize just how much stuff he was involved in. He was a child prodigy at mathematics. Plus, who do you think the Gauss Rifle is named after?)
19 Christian Doppler (Doppler effect, duh)
20 Guglielmo Marconi
21 Nicola Tesla
22 The Doctor (from Doctor Who) I am amazed this didn't make it.
23 Dr. Frankenstein
24 Jonas Venture Sr.
25 The Brain (from Pinky and the Brain)