Notes

For informative purposes, I have numbered the persons alphabetically, starting with the number 1 for Abel. The other have been calculated using the formula cell above+1. When sorting (e.g. by points, the numbering sequence is distorted because Abel still keeps number 1 (no formula), while the other are updated related to Abel. Hence the backstep in the Ranking sheet.

  This collection is based mainly on data from Wikipedia (see X-Links). Some judgements have been rquired:

• Age is set to year of death minus year of birth regardless of dates.

• People still alive have been computed by death year 2015.

• Active year is set to year of birth plus 2/3 of age (for simplicity).

• Country is chosen to be citizenship or country of education.

• Alma Mater has been chosen to the most recent where alternatives exist.

• Laws/theorems, etc. named after two people (e.g. Boyle-Mariotte law) have been credited both.

• The extremely productive and generous Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös could have been credited for 13 theorems, putting him in a divine class (he is the mathematical analogy of Sergey Bubka; pushing the limit a small step at a time knowing his ultimate performance).

• I have credited him for two theorems only.

The list is obviously biased towards science and mathematics.

Humaniora and the social sciences, medicin and philosophy have not been visible in my information pool, but will be included if I come across reliable sources.