I foresee the question about. A. Einstein. Some of his works dont't have complete prove yet, and the 2 I named have unconditional prove of their theories. Also, his 1st wife Mileva played a significant role in creating the theory, and later was thrown out of the family. And, of course, great Lorentz did most of the mathematical formalism. And the deviation of photons by a gravitational body could have been predicted based on the corpuscular-wave duality. - Known long ago before him. Though Einstein probably should be put the 3rd just for compiling it all together. - For sure, he did did more than that.
By the way, both Mendeleev and Newton had difficult characters, which is allowed fir geniuses.
Also, D. I. Mendeleev, whose relatives I have an honor to know, was the 1st to introduce the oil pipeline. For that reason he was refused the Nobel prize, since Nobel was very active with the Caspian sea oil.
Dear Natalia !
Very nice question!
First of all, we have no accurate criterion of the evaluation of the greatest scientists.We can estimate the biggest tree and the oldest city in the world but there are many questions about selection of the greatest scientist. This issue is similar to the evaluation of the famous theories and their practical implementation. The problem is subjectivism. You can use expert evaluation methods ( using opinion of ResearchGate members and your colleagues) and each great scientist will get his degree.
Regards, Joseph
Dear Joseph, of course, it is subjective. This is the essence of the question and we'll see the statistics.
Dear Natalia, I think that we cannot fix 2 people here. Opinions will differ. I would agree about Newton. But what about Leonardo? There was no such interdisciplinary scientist after. Lomonosov? We also should remember Aristotle, although it was long ago. As for math (well, is it a science, but anyway) we should recall Gauss, Lorenz, Poincare, Hilbert... Darwin? Faraday? Maxwell? Pavlov? Freud? In this book 100 names are collected, but some people may disagree even about this broader list: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/hundred-scientists.pdf
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