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the pantheon of scientists

I present the most recent list of scientists with the greatest impact in our time. Are ranked according to members of the pantheon have appeared in books, allowing scientists to compare different research fields such as mathematics, physics, and social sciences. The two creators of list are Adrian Veres and John Bohannon. Two pioneers in a new research field called culturomics (culturómica), which is the quantitative exploration of digital data records. The method used in this field is the analysis of millions of books and search for words or phrases in these books. Obviously nobody has time to read both, so take advantage of a relatively new technology: Google, Google Books particular . This service now has 15 million books, of which 4% were used for the study. These digitized books is easy to look up words and names.
first thing they did Veres and Bohannon was to compile a comprehensive list of scientists. Wikipedia served as a database where they got, using a special algorithm, the names. Then counted the number of occurrences of each of the names of scientists in the books Google Books. A greater number of citations per year means a name a place higher on the list.
Here it is:

Bertrand Russell 1872

	name birth death		miliDarwin
		1970 1500
Charles Darwin		1809 1882	1000
Albert Einstein	1879	1955	878
Lewis Carroll	1832	1898	479
Claude Bernard	1813	1878	429
Oliver Lodge	1851	1940	394
Julian Huxley	1887	1975	350
Karl Pearson	1857	1936	346
Niels Bohr	1885	1962	289
Alexander Graham Bell	1847	1922	274
Max Planck	1858	1947	256
Francis Galton	1822	1911	255
Robert Oppenheimer	1904	1967	252
Louis Pasteur	1822	1895	237
Chaim Weizmann	1874	1952	236
Alfred North Whitehead	1861	1947	229
Marie Curie	1867	1934	189
Robert Koch	1843	1910	185
Isaac Asimov	1920	1992	183
James Jeans	1877	1946	182
Ray Lankester	1847	1929	175
Stephen Jay Gould	1941	2002	169
Norbert Wiener		1894 1964	163
Rachel Carson		1907 1964	152
Carl Sagan		1934 1996	152

Why Charles Darwin has exactly 1000 miliDarwin (mD), or 1 Darwin, and what this unit? Darwin is one of the most famous scientists, whose work has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the world. To honor this, and Bohannon Veres named the unit of measure with his name. This measure is defined as the average annual frequency that the name "Charles Darwin" in books written in English since 1839, the year that Darwin turned 30.

In fact we can all use Google Books for research using a service called Ngram . You can see the use of words over time or compare several terms. For example, Batman vs. Superman:

seems that Superman has more fans than Batman ...

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More information, as always in English, here: http://fame.gonzolabs.org/

The full list is here along with more information published in the journal Science.