Physics, genetics, vaccines and spaceflight, all claimed under the same passport.
1Benjamin FranklinProved lightning was electrical, named positive and negative charge, and charted the Gulf Stream.
2Richard FeynmanNobel-winning physicist who reworked quantum electrodynamics and explained it better than anyone.
3Edwin HubbleShowed the universe is full of other galaxies and that it is expanding.
4Linus PaulingThe only person with two unshared Nobel Prizes, for chemical bonding and for peace.
5Barbara McClintockGeneticist who discovered transposable elements in maize decades before the field caught up.
6J. Robert OppenheimerTheoretical physicist who led the Los Alamos laboratory during the Manhattan Project.
7Josiah Willard GibbsFounded chemical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics from a quiet post at Yale.
8Jonas SalkDeveloped the first effective polio vaccine and declined to patent it.
9Carl SaganPlanetary scientist who turned public science communication into a craft of its own.
10Rachel CarsonMarine biologist whose Silent Spring launched the modern environmental movement.
11James WatsonCo-authored the double-helix model of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953.
12Albert EinsteinNaturalised American who spent his last two decades at Princeton after reshaping physics.
13Maria Goeppert MayerWon the Nobel for the nuclear shell model, the second woman to take the physics prize.
14Charles Richard DrewSurgeon whose blood-plasma research made large-scale blood banks possible.
15Katherine JohnsonNASA mathematician whose orbital calculations put American astronauts into space and back.
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Einstein spent his last two decades at Princeton. Franklin did his work before the country he is ranked for existed, true of nobody else here: https://youpick.best/articles/benjamin-franklin-ranked-many-ways
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