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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Albert Einstein Theoretical physicist, theory of relativity	Germany	Scientists	98.6	10.0
#2	—	Aristotle	—	Scientists	98.3	10.0
#3	—	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	—	Scientists	95.6	0.0
#4	—	Charles Darwin	United Kingdom	Scientists	94.3	0.2
#5	—	Galileo Galilei	Italy	Scientists	94.1	0.0
#6	—	Thomas Edison	United States	Scientists	94.1	0.0
#7	—	Marie Curie Physicist & chemist, two-time Nobel laureate	—	Scientists	93.6	0.0
#8	—	Christopher Columbus	Italy	Scientists	93.3	0.0
#9	—	Louis Pasteur	France	Scientists	93.0	10.0
#10	—	Stephen Hawking	United Kingdom	Scientists	90.6	0.0
#11	—	Ferdinand Magellan	Portugal	Scientists	90.3	4.9
#12	—	Nikola Tesla	—	Scientists	89.8	0.0
#13	—	Roald Amundsen	Norway	Scientists	89.6	15.1
#14	—	James Cook	United Kingdom	Scientists	89.6	10.0
#15	—	Nicolaus Copernicus	—	Scientists	89.1	0.0
#16	—	Carl Linnaeus	Sweden	Scientists	89.0	0.0
#17	—	Vasco da Gama	Portugal	Scientists	88.7	10.0
#18	—	Theodore Roosevelt	United States	Scientists	88.2	1.6
#19	—	Alfred Nobel	Sweden	Scientists	85.5	0.0
#20	—	James Watt	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.6	10.0
#21	—	Tim Berners-Lee	United Kingdom	Scientists	83.4	0.0
#22	—	Johannes Gutenberg	Germany	Scientists	82.9	0.0
#23	—	Dmitri Mendeleev	—	Scientists	82.8	0.0
#24	—	Ernest Rutherford	New Zealand	Scientists	82.5	1.4
#25	—	Michael Faraday	United Kingdom	Scientists	82.4	0.0
#26	—	Carl Sagan	United States	Scientists	82.1	0.0
#27	—	Ulysses S. Grant	United States	Scientists	81.8	2.4
#28	—	Hernán Cortés	Spain	Scientists	81.5	0.0
#29	—	Wilhelm Röntgen	Germany	Scientists	81.1	3.0
#30	—	Enrico Fermi	Italy	Scientists	80.8	0.0
#31	—	Ibn Battuta	—	Scientists	80.1	0.0
#32	—	Alexander von Humboldt	—	Scientists	79.7	10.0
#33	—	Erwin Schrödinger	Austria	Scientists	79.6	0.0
#34	—	Alexander Graham Bell	United States	Scientists	79.3	0.0
#35	—	Jacques Cartier	France	Scientists	79.1	0.6
#36	—	James Clerk Maxwell	United Kingdom	Scientists	79.0	0.0
#37	—	Richard Feynman	United States	Scientists	78.9	0.0
#38	—	Edmund Hillary	New Zealand	Scientists	78.8	13.5
#39	—	Walter Lewin	Netherlands	Scientists	78.0	9.4
#40	—	James Prescott Joule	United Kingdom	Scientists	77.5	15.0
#41	—	Zheng He	China	Scientists	77.5	0.0
#42	—	David Attenborough	United Kingdom	Scientists	77.4	0.0
#43	—	Giordano Bruno	Italy	Scientists	77.3	0.0
#44	—	Guglielmo Marconi	Italy	Scientists	76.6	5.3
#45	—	Max Born	United Kingdom	Scientists	74.8	9.3
#46	—	André-Marie Ampère	France	Scientists	74.5	15.0
#47	—	Tycho Brahe	Sweden	Scientists	74.4	4.5
#48	—	Bret Weinstein	United States	Scientists	74.4	9.7
#49	—	Sabine Hossenfelder	Germany	Scientists	74.3	0.9
#50	—	Wojciech Cejrowski	—	Scientists	74.1	15.0
#51	—	Gregor Mendel	—	Scientists	73.6	0.0
#52	—	Andrei Sakharov	—	Scientists	73.1	15.0
#53	—	Karl Benz	Germany	Scientists	73.0	10.1
#54	—	Sean M. Carroll	United States	Scientists	72.9	2.3
#55	—	Pierre Curie	France	Scientists	72.8	0.0
#56	—	Ed Stafford	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.7	4.2
#57	—	Irène Joliot-Curie	France	Scientists	72.5	16.1
#58	—	Arthur C. Clarke	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.5	0.4
#59	—	Antoine Lavoisier	France	Scientists	72.3	0.0
#60	—	Mikhail Lomonosov	—	Scientists	72.2	10.0
#61	—	Henri Becquerel	France	Scientists	72.0	14.3
#62	—	Francis Drake	United Kingdom	Scientists	72.0	0.0
#63	—	Hendrik Lorentz	Netherlands	Scientists	71.9	2.4
#64	—	Bear Grylls	United Kingdom	Scientists	71.9	0.0
#65	—	Paracelsus	Switzerland	Scientists	71.7	10.1
#66	—	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	France	Scientists	71.5	15.0
#67	—	Steve Wozniak	United States	Scientists	71.4	10.0
#68	—	Robert Koch	Germany	Scientists	71.2	0.0
#69	—	Leif Erikson	—	Scientists	71.1	10.7
#70	—	Ivan Pavlov	—	Scientists	70.8	0.0
#71	—	Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim	Germany	Scientists	70.3	1.5
#72	—	Alessandro Volta	Italy	Scientists	70.2	0.7
#73	—	J. J. Thomson	United Kingdom	Scientists	70.2	0.6
#74	—	Omar Abd al-Kafi	Egypt	Scientists	70.2	0.0
#75	—	Ellen MacArthur	United Kingdom	Scientists	70.2	1.0
#76	—	Lawrence M. Krauss	United States	Scientists	70.1	2.0
#77	—	Svante Arrhenius	Sweden	Scientists	70.1	14.2
#78	—	Georg Ohm	Germany	Scientists	70.1	15.0
#79	—	H. C. Verma	India	Scientists	70.0	0.0
#80	—	Abel Tasman	Netherlands	Scientists	69.9	11.5
#81	—	Christiaan Huygens	Netherlands	Scientists	69.9	0.0
#82	—	C. V. Raman	India	Scientists	69.8	0.7
#83	—	Mike Horn	South Africa	Scientists	69.8	0.0
#84	—	James Dyson	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.7	0.0
#85	—	Paul Stamets	United States	Scientists	69.6	0.0
#86	—	Amerigo Vespucci	—	Scientists	69.6	0.0
#87	—	Mikhail Kalashnikov	—	Scientists	69.5	6.2
#88	—	Humphry Davy	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.5	10.4
#89	—	Robert Boyle	—	Scientists	69.5	1.1
#90	—	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	—	Scientists	69.4	15.0
#91	—	Rosalind Franklin	United Kingdom	Scientists	69.2	0.0
#92	—	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	France	Scientists	69.2	31.6
#93	—	James Watson	United States	Scientists	69.0	1.7
#94	—	Maria Goeppert Mayer	Germany	Scientists	69.0	25.8
#95	—	Bruce Lipton	United States	Scientists	68.9	0.2
#96	—	Pieter Zeeman	Netherlands	Scientists	68.8	16.1
#97	—	Tenzing Norgay	—	Scientists	68.8	8.2
#98	—	Aryabhata	India	Scientists	68.8	6.7
#99	—	William Herschel	Germany	Scientists	68.7	0.0
#100	—	Linus Pauling	United States	Scientists	68.6	0.1

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