Having left this thread to attract further comment, I find that I have not attempted a revision for some months. With the New Year (2002) almost upon us, I thought I would try again to clean up the list, according to my lights, and with the comments of posters in mind:
TENTATIVE TOP 100--- AND THEN SOME:
1. Winston Churchill
2. Ronald Reagan
3. Franklin Roosevelt
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. Harry Truman
6. George Marshall
7. Dwight Eisenhower
8. Chester Nimitz
9. Douglas McArthur
10. George Orwell
11. William F. Buckley, Jr.
12. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
13. Andrei Sakharov
14. Lech Walesa
15. Vaclav Havel
16. George Bush
17. Helmut Kohl
18. Konrad Adenauer
19. Charles DeGaulle
20. John Paul II
21. Milton Friedman
22. Fred Hayek
23. John XXIII
24. Martin Luther King
25. Mikhail Gorbachev
26. T.S. Eliot
27. D.H. Lawrence
28. James Joyce
29. G.B. Shaw
29. Albert Camus
30. Franz Kafka
31. Herman Hesse
32. Thomas Mann
33. Samuel Becket
34. Martin Heidegger
35. Karl Jaspers
36. Martin Buber
37. D.T. Suzuki
38. C.S. Lewis
39. G.K. Chesterton
40. Henry Ford
41. The Wright Brothers (in tandem)
42. Marconi/Tesla (acknowledging the dispute)
43. Vladimir Zworkin/Philo Farnsworth (both contributed crucially to television)
44. Alan Turing (computer)
45. George Stibitz (more or less the father of the computer)
46. Goddard
47. Von Braun
48. Marie and Pierre Curie (in tandem)
49. Albert Einstein
50. Niels Bohr/Werner Heisenberg
51. Robert Watson- Watt (radar)
52. Gordon Moore/Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet)
53. Bardeen/Shockley/Brattain (the transistor)
54. Hoff/Mazor/Faggin (the microprocessor)
55. Paul Erlich (chemotherapy)
56. Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
57. Gerhard Domagk (sulfa drugs)
58. Salk/Sabin (polio vaccine)
59. Watson & Crick (DNA model)
60. William Halsted (surgery)
61. The Mayo Brothers (surgery)
62. Niels Bohr
63. Werner Heisenberg
64. Carl Jung
65. H. G. Wells
66. Aldous Huxley
67. D.W. Griffith
68. Charles Chaplin
69. Frank Capra
70. Fritz Lang
71. John Huston
72. Orson Welles
73. Jean Renoir
74. Federico Fellini
75. Ingmar Bergman
76. Akira Kurosawa
77. Stanley Kubrick
78. Boris Yeltsin
79. Nelson Mandela
80. Duke Ellington
81. George & Ira Gershwin
82. Irving Berlin
83. The Beatles
84. Barry Gordy
85. Bob Dylan
86. Louis Sullivan
87. Pablo Picasso
88. Henri Matisse
89. Piet Mondrian
90. Wassily Kandinsky
91. Constantin Brancusi
92. Marcel Duchamp
93. Jackson Pollack
94. Willem De Kooning
95. Frank Lloyd Wright
96. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
97. Walter Gropius
98. Le Courbousier
99. Elvis Presley
100.Agnes DeMille/Martha Graham
I am happy to invite further comments, and, I hope, more discussion. When there have been some changes, I will change the heading to reflect them....... |
