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1,Isaac Newton,the Newtonian Revolution,"Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church)"
2,Albert Einstein,Twentieth-Century Science,Jewish
3,Neils Bohr,the Atom,Jewish Lutheran
4,Charles Darwin,Evolution,Anglican (nominal); Unitarian
5,Louis Pasteur,the Germ Theory of Disease,Catholic
6,Sigmund Freud,Psychology of the Unconscious,Jewish; Atheist; Freudian psychoanalysis (Freudianism)
7,Galileo Galilei,the New Science,Catholic
8,Antoine Laurent Lavoisier,the Revolution in Chemistry,Catholic
9,Johannes Kepler,Motion of the Planets,Lutheran
10,Nicolaus Copernicus,the Heliocentric Universe,Catholic (priest)
11,Michael Faraday,the Classical Field Theory,Sandemanian
12,James Clerk Maxwell,the Electromagnetic Field,Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist
13,Claude Bernard,the Founding of Modern Physiology,
14,Franz Boas,Modern Anthropology,Jewish
15,Werner Heisenberg,Quantum Theory,Lutheran
16,Linus Pauling,Twentieth-Century Chemistry,Lutheran
17,Rudolf Virchow,the Cell Doctrine,
18,Erwin Schrodinger,Wave Mechanics,Catholic
19,Ernest Rutherford,the Structure of the Atom,
20,Paul Dirac,Quantum Electrodynamics,
21,Andreas Vesalius,the New Anatomy,Catholic
22,Tycho Brahe,the New Astronomy,Lutheran
23,Comte de Buffon,l'Histoire Naturelle,
24,Ludwig Boltzmann,Thermodynamics,
25,Max Planck,the Quanta,Protestant
26,Marie Curie,Radioactivity,Catholic (lapsed)
27,William Herschel,the Discovery of the Heavens,Jewish
28,Charles Lyell,Modern Geology,
29,Pierre Simon de Laplace,Newtonian Mechanics,atheist
30,Edwin Hubble,the Modern Telescope,
31,Joseph J. Thomson,the Discovery of the Electron,
32,Max Born,Quantum Mechanics,Jewish Lutheran
33,Francis Crick,Molecular Biology,atheist
34,Enrico Fermi,Atomic Physics,Catholic
35,Leonard Euler,Eighteenth-Century Mathematics,Calvinist
36,Justus Liebig,Nineteenth-Century Chemistry,
37,Arthur Eddington,Modern Astronomy,Quaker
38,William Harvey,Circulation of the Blood,Anglican (nominal)
39,Marcello Malpighi,Microscopic Anatomy,Catholic
40,Christiaan Huygens,the Wave Theory of Light,Calvinist
41,Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss),Mathematical Genius,Lutheran
42,Albrecht von Haller,Eighteenth-Century Medicine,
43,August Kekule,Chemical Structure,
44,Robert Koch,Bacteriology,
45,Murray Gell-Mann,the Eightfold Way,Jewish
46,Emil Fischer,Organic Chemistry,
47,Dmitri Mendeleev,the Periodic Table of Elements,
48,Sheldon Glashow,the Discovery of Charm,Jewish
49,James Watson,the Structure of DNA,atheist
50,John Bardeen,Superconductivity,
51,John von Neumann,the Modern Computer,Jewish Catholic
52,Richard Feynman,Quantum Electrodynamics,Jewish
53,Alfred Wegener,Continental Drift,
54,Stephen Hawking,Quantum Cosmology,atheist
55,Anton van Leeuwenhoek,the Simple Microscope,Dutch Reformed
56,Max von Laue,X-ray Crystallography,
57,Gustav Kirchhoff,Spectroscopy,
58,Hans Bethe,the Energy of the Sun,Jewish
59,Euclid,the Foundations of Mathematics,Platonism / Greek philosophy
60,Gregor Mendel,the Laws of Inheritance,Catholic (Augustinian monk)
61,Heike Kamerlingh Onnes,Superconductivity,
62,Thomas Hunt Morgan,the Chromosomal Theory of Heredity,
63,Hermann von Helmholtz,the Rise of German Science,
64,Paul Ehrlich,Chemotherapy,Jewish
65,Ernst Mayr,Evolutionary Theory,atheist
66,Charles Sherrington,Neurophysiology,
67,Theodosius Dobzhansky,the Modern Synthesis,Russian Orthodox
68,Max Delbruck,the Bacteriophage,
69,Jean Baptiste Lamarck,the Foundations of Biology,
70,William Bayliss,Modern Physiology,
71,Noam Chomsky,Twentieth-Century Linguistics,Jewish atheist
72,Frederick Sanger,the Genetic Code,
73,Lucretius,Scientific Thinking,Epicurean; atheist
74,John Dalton,the Theory of the Atom,Quaker
75,Louis Victor de Broglie,Wave/Particle Duality,
76,Carl Linnaeus,the Binomial Nomenclature,Christianity
77,Jean Piaget,Child Development,
78,George Gaylord Simpson,the Tempo of Evolution,
79,Claude Levi-Strauss,Structural Anthropology,Jewish
80,Lynn Margulis,Symbiosis Theory,Jewish
81,Karl Landsteiner,the Blood Groups,Jewish
82,Konrad Lorenz,Ethology,
83,Edward O. Wilson,Sociobiology,
84,Frederick Gowland Hopkins,Vitamins,
85,Gertrude Belle Elion,Pharmacology,
86,Hans Selye,the Stress Concept,
87,J. Robert Oppenheimer,the Atomic Era,Jewish
88,Edward Teller,the Bomb,Jewish
89,Willard Libby,Radioactive Dating,
90,Ernst Haeckel,the Biogenetic Principle,
91,Jonas Salk,Vaccination,Jewish
92,Emil Kraepelin,Twentieth-Century Psychiatry,
93,Trofim Lysenko,Soviet Genetics,Russian Orthodox; Communist
94,Francis Galton,Eugenics,
95,Alfred Binet,the I.Q. Test,
96,Alfred Kinsey,Human Sexuality,atheist
97,Alexander Fleming,Penicillin,Catholic
98,B. F. Skinner,Behaviorism,atheist
99,Wilhelm Wundt,the Founding of Psychology,atheist
100,Archimedes,the Beginning of Science,Greek philosophy

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