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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Isaac Newton	United Kingdom	Academics	94.2	0.0
#2	new	René Descartes	France	Academics	93.9	0.0
#3	new	Archimedes	—	Academics	93.2	0.0
#4	new	Carl Friedrich Gauss	Germany	Academics	86.9	0.0
#5	new	Avicenna	—	Academics	85.9	0.0
#6	new	Leonhard Euler	Switzerland	Academics	85.4	0.3
#7	new	Thales of Miletus	Turkey	Academics	84.6	9.9
#8	new	Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi	—	Academics	84.5	5.2
#9	new	Johannes Kepler	Germany	Academics	83.6	0.0
#10	new	Omar Khayyam	—	Academics	83.2	3.0
#11	new	Henri Poincaré	France	Academics	77.2	9.5
#12	new	Ptolemy	—	Academics	76.2	0.0
#13	new	Pierre-Simon Laplace	France	Academics	76.1	25.0
#14	new	Averroes	Spain	Academics	73.6	0.9
#15	new	Maimonides	Spain	Academics	72.7	10.0
#16	new	Nostradamus	France	Academics	72.5	1.2
#17	new	Jean le Rond d'Alembert	France	Academics	72.5	11.0
#18	new	Anaxagoras	Turkey	Academics	72.4	10.0
#19	new	Charles Babbage	United Kingdom	Academics	72.4	3.9
#20	new	B Brahmagupta	India	Academics	71.8	1.6
#21	new	Hypatia	Egypt	Academics	71.1	0.7
#22	new	Al-Biruni	—	Academics	71.0	4.2
#23	new	Ibn al-Haytham	—	Academics	69.9	3.4
#24	new	Edmond Halley	United Kingdom	Academics	68.9	15.4
#25	new	Konstantin Tsiolkovsky	—	Academics	68.8	2.2
#26	new	Eratosthenes	—	Academics	68.6	0.5
#27	new	Anaximander	Turkey	Academics	68.0	0.0
#28	new	Al-Farabi	—	Academics	67.2	2.8
#29	new	Anaximenes of Miletus	Turkey	Academics	67.1	15.0
#30	new	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	France	Academics	66.4	0.0
#31	new	Al-Kindi	—	Academics	65.0	11.8
#32	new	Nicholas of Cusa	Germany	Academics	65.0	15.0
#33	new	Roger Penrose	United Kingdom	Academics	64.9	0.9
#34	new	Christian Doppler	Austria	Academics	64.2	26.9
#35	new	Gerolamo Cardano	Italy	Academics	64.0	16.8
#36	new	Apollonius of Perga	Turkey	Academics	62.5	16.2
#37	new	Alfred Wegener	Germany	Academics	62.4	0.0
#38	new	Nasir al-Din al-Tusi	—	Academics	61.9	6.9
#39	new	Georges Lemaître	—	Academics	61.5	0.0
#40	new	William Rowan Hamilton	—	Academics	61.0	0.1
#41	new	John Dee	—	Academics	60.0	3.7
#42	new	Michel Mayor	Switzerland	Academics	59.9	28.1
#43	new	John Couch Adams	United Kingdom	Academics	59.7	9.2
#44	new	Giovanni Domenico Cassini	Italy	Academics	59.0	0.0
#45	new	Ismail al-Jazari	—	Academics	58.6	2.9
#46	new	William Gilbert	United Kingdom	Academics	58.0	0.7
#47	new	August Ferdinand Möbius	Germany	Academics	57.7	7.6
#48	new	Fakhr al-Din al-Razi	—	Academics	57.5	9.4
#49	new	Abraham de Moivre	France	Academics	57.4	17.3
#50	new	Marin Mersenne	France	Academics	57.3	7.3
#51	new	Jean-Baptiste Biot	France	Academics	56.9	1.5
#52	new	Eudoxus of Cnidus	Turkey	Academics	56.9	0.0
#53	new	Al-Battani	Turkey	Academics	56.6	16.5
#54	new	Bhāskara II	India	Academics	56.5	1.2
#55	new	Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani	—	Academics	56.3	8.3
#56	new	Roger Joseph Boscovich	—	Scientists	56.3	3.5
#57	new	Regiomontanus	Germany	Scientists	55.7	17.0
#58	new	Avempace	—	Academics	55.6	6.7
#59	new	Siméon Denis Poisson	France	Academics	55.3	0.7
#60	new	Pappus of Alexandria	Egypt	Academics	55.1	2.1
#61	new	Pierre Gassendi	France	Academics	55.0	0.4
#62	new	Thomas Harriot	United Kingdom	Academics	54.6	1.7
#63	new	Simon Stevin	—	Academics	54.5	0.3
#64	new	Johann Heinrich Lambert	France	Academics	54.2	0.0
#65	new	Philolaus	Italy	Academics	54.2	0.1
#66	new	Posidonius	—	Academics	53.8	0.0
#67	new	Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve	—	Scientists	53.8	2.4
#68	new	H Hippias	—	Academics	53.5	0.0
#69	new	Bonaventura Cavalieri	—	Academics	53.5	0.4
#70	new	James Jeans	United Kingdom	Academics	53.4	0.0
#71	new	T Theano	—	Academics	53.3	0.0
#72	new	Milutin Milanković	—	Academics	53.3	0.0
#73	new	TI Thābit ibn Qurra	—	Academics	53.0	1.0
#74	new	Wilhelm Schickard	—	Academics	52.2	0.0