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Top 20 Most Influential Scientists in History

Carl Jung

Psychiatrist

Founder of Analytical Psychology

Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

Founding Figure of German Philosophy and Pioneer of Critical Philosophy

Plato

Greek philosopher

Leonardo da Vinci

Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Scientist

Stephen Hawking

Theoretical Physicist, Professor, Author

One of the greatest theoretical physicists after Albert Einstein; a pioneer of black hole physics and cosmology.

Isaac Newton

Scientist, Mathematician

Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

One of the most influential and provocative philosophers in the history of Western thought

Galileo Galilei

Physicist, Astronomer, Philosopher

Marie Curie

Physicist, Chemist

Alan Turing

Mathematician, Cryptologist, Computer Scientist

Founding Father of Computer Science & Codebreaker of World War II

Aristotle

Philosopher, Scientist

Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Author

A pioneering astronomer and astrobiologist who helped bring science to the public and advanced the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Charles Darwin

Naturalist, Biologist

The Father of Evolutionary Biology

Copernicus

Astronomer, Mathematician, Physician

Michel Foucault

Philosopher, Social Theorist

French philosopher who profoundly transformed modern thought through his analyses of madness, knowledge, and power

Nikola Tesla

Physicist, Engineer

Sigmund Freud

Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

The Father of Psychoanalysis