Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

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1. Richard Feynman

   Author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), What Do You Care What Other People Think?, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

2. Albert Einstein

   Author of Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Ideas and Opinions, Out Of My Later Years

3. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable

4. Stephen Hawking

   Author of A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Nature of Space and Time

5. Bertrand Russell

   Author of A History of Western Philosophy, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, The Conquest of Happiness

6. Roger Penrose

   Author of The Emperor's New Mind, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

7. Carl Sagan

   Author of Cosmos, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

8. Brian Greene

   Author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, The Fabric of the Cosmos

9. James Gleick

   Author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Isaac Newton

10. Charles Darwin

    Author of On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man

11. Stephen Jay Gould

    Author of The Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

12. Isaac Newton

    Author of Principia Mathematica, Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730, Principia: Vol. II: The System of the World

13. David Berlinski

    Author of A Tour of the Calculus

14. Daniel C. Dennett

    Author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Freedom Evolves

15. Steven Weinberg

    Author of The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Dreams of a Final Theory

16. Thomas S. Kuhn

    Author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Copernican Revolution

17. Steven Pinker

    Author of How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

18. John Gribbin

    Author of In search of Schrödinger's cat : quantum physics and reality, Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries Tag: Author of In Search of Schrod. Cat, The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe

19. Timothy Ferris

    Author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report, The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics

20. Werner Heisenberg

    Author of Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory