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I am a huge Simpsons fan, but really...#4????? Aye Carumba!!

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The top 100 living geniuses was compiled by a panel of six experts in creativity and innovation from Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm.

 

Each genius was then awarded scores out of ten against criteria which included: paradigm shifting; popular acclaim; intellectual power; achievement and cultural importance

 

 

1= Albert Hoffman (Swiss) Chemist 27

1= Tim Berners-Lee (British) Computer Scientist 27

3 George Soros (American) Investor & Philanthropist 25

4 Matt Groening (American) Satirist & Animator 24

5= Nelson Mandela (South African) Politician & Diplomat 23

5= Frederick Sanger (British) Chemist 23

7= Dario Fo (Italian) Writer & Dramatist 22

7= Steven Hawking (British) Physicist 22

9= Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian) Architect 21

9= Philip Glass (American) Composer 21

9= Grigory Perelman (Russian) Mathematician 21

12= Andrew Wiles (British) Mathematician 20

12= Li Hongzhi (Chinese) Spiritual Leader 20

12= Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer 20

15= Brian Eno (British) Composer 19

15= Damian Hirst (British) Artist 19

15= Daniel Tammet (British) Savant & Linguist 19

18 Nicholson Baker (American Writer 18

19 Daniel Barenboim (N/A) Musician 17

20= Robert Crumb (American) Artist 16

20= Richard Dawkins (British) Biologist and philosopher 16

20= Larry Page & Sergey Brin (American) Publishers 16

20= Rupert Murdoch (American) Publisher 16

20= Geoffrey Hill (British) Poet 16

25 Garry Kasparov (Russian) Chess Player 15

26= The Dalai Lama (Tibetan) Spiritual Leader 14

26= Steven Spielberg (American) Film maker 14

26= Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japanese) Roboticist 14

26= Robert Edwards (British) Pioneer of IVF treatment 14

26= Seamus Heaney (Irish) Poet 14

31 Harold Pinter (British) Writer & Dramatist 13

32= Flossie Wong-Staal (Chinese) Bio-technologist 12

32= Bobby Fischer (American) Chess Player 12

32= Prince (American) Musician 12

32= Henrik Gorecki (Polish) Composer 12

32= Avram Noam Chomski (American) Philosopher & linguist 12

32= Sebastian Thrun (German) Probabilistic roboticist 12

32= Nima Arkani Hamed (Canadian) Physicist 12

32= Margaret Turnbull (American) Astrobiologist 12

40= Elaine Pagels (American) Historian 11

40= Enrique Ostrea (Philippino) Pediatrics & neonatology 11

40= Gary Becker (American) Economist 11

43= Mohammed Ali (American) Boxer 10

43= Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10

43= Bill Gates (American) Businessman 10

43= Philip Roth (American) Writer 10

43= James West (American) Invented the foil electrical microphone 10

43= Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese) Bio-Medical Scientist 10

49= Brian Wilson (American) Musician 9

49= Stevie Wonder (American) Singer songwriter 9

49= Vint Cerf (American) Computer scientist 9

49= Henry Kissinger (American) Diplomat and politician 9

49= Richard Branson (British) Publicist 9

49= Pardis Sabeti (Iranian) Biological anthropologist 9

49= Jon de Mol (Dutch) Television producer 9

49= Meryl Streep (American) Actress 9

49= Margaret Attwood (Canadian) Writer 9

58= Placido Domingo (Spanish) Singer 8

58= John Lasseter (American) Digital Animator 8

58= Shunpei Yamazaki (Japanese) Computer scientist & physicist 8

58= Jane Goodall (British) Ethologist & Anthropologist 8

58= Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (Indian) Historian 8

58= John Goto (British) Photographer 8

58= Paul McCartney (British) Musician 8

58= Stephen King (American) Writer 8

58= Leonard Cohen (American) Poet & musician 8

67= Aretha Franklin (American) Musician 7

67= David Bowie (British) Musician 7

67= Emily Oster (American) Economist 7

67= Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers 7

67= Martin Cooper (American) Inventor of the cell phone 7

72= George Lucas (American) Film maker 6

72= Niles Rogers (American) Musician 6

72= Hans Zimmer (German) Composer 6

72= John Williams (American) Composer 6

72= Annette Baier (New Zealander) Philosopher 6

72= Dorothy Rowe (British) Psychologist 6

72= Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian) Artist & sculptor 6

72= Robin Escovado (American) Composer 6

72= Mark Dean (American) Inventor & computer scientist 6

72= Rick Rubin (American) Musician & producer 6

72= Stan Lee (American) Publisher 6

83= David Warren (Australian) Engineer 5

83= Jon Fosse (Norwegian) Writer & dramatist

83= Gjertrud Schnackenberg (American) Poet 5

83= Graham Linehan (Irish) Writer & dramatist 5

83= JK Rowling (British) Writer 5

83= Ken Russell (British) Film maker 5

83= Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian) Small arms designer 5

83= Erich Jarvis (American) Neurobiologist 5

91=. Chad Varah (British) Founder of Samaritans 4

91= Nicolas Hayek (Swiss) Businessman and founder of Swatch 4

91= Alastair Hannay (British) Philosopher 4

94= Patricia Bath (American) Ophthalmologist

94= Thomas A. Jackson (American) Aerospace engineer 3

94= Dolly Parton (American) Singer 3

94= Morissey (British) Singer 3

94= Michael Eavis (British) Organiser of Glastonbury 3

94= Ranulph Fiennes (British) Adventurer 3

100=. Quentin Tarantino (American) Filmmaker 2

 

 

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Osama Bin Laden gets a vote? (Do you think he'll turn up at the award ceremony???) And where's Hiltler? Einstein? Kirby? That guy off the Subway ads?

 

Ha, I suppose you could look at this this way. Put your hand up if you have ever watched the Simpsons.....OK, thats everyone.....and now put your had up if you've ever used LSD (that's what Hoffmans famous for)....OK, just Greggy....

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Osama Bin Laden gets a vote? (Do you think he'll turn up at the award ceremony???) And where's Hiltler? Einstein? Kirby? That guy off the Subway ads?

 

Ha, I suppose you could look at this this way. Put your hand up if you have ever watched the Simpsons.....OK, thats everyone.....and now put your had up if you've ever used LSD (that's what Hoffmans famous for)....OK, just Greggy....

Top 100 living...Hitler Einstein and Kirby are Dead.

Some would argue Osama , as well.

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The top 100 living geniuses was compiled by a panel of six experts in creativity and innovation from Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm.

 

Each genius was then awarded scores out of ten against criteria which included: paradigm shifting; popular acclaim; intellectual power; achievement and cultural importance

 

 

1= Albert Hoffman (Swiss) Chemist 27

1= Tim Berners-Lee (British) Computer Scientist 27

3 George Soros (American) Investor & Philanthropist 25

4 Matt Groening (American) Satirist & Animator 24

5= Nelson Mandela (South African) Politician & Diplomat 23

5= Frederick Sanger (British) Chemist 23

7= Dario Fo (Italian) Writer & Dramatist 22

7= Steven Hawking (British) Physicist 22

9= Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian) Architect 21

9= Philip Glass (American) Composer 21

9= Grigory Perelman (Russian) Mathematician 21

12= Andrew Wiles (British) Mathematician 20

12= Li Hongzhi (Chinese) Spiritual Leader 20

12= Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer 20

15= Brian Eno (British) Composer 19

15= Damian Hirst (British) Artist 19

15= Daniel Tammet (British) Savant & Linguist 19

18 Nicholson Baker (American Writer 18

19 Daniel Barenboim (N/A) Musician 17

20= Robert Crumb (American) Artist 16

20= Richard Dawkins (British) Biologist and philosopher 16

20= Larry Page & Sergey Brin (American) Publishers 16

20= Rupert Murdoch (American) Publisher 16

20= Geoffrey Hill (British) Poet 16

25 Garry Kasparov (Russian) Chess Player 15

26= The Dalai Lama (Tibetan) Spiritual Leader 14

26= Steven Spielberg (American) Film maker 14

26= Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japanese) Roboticist 14

26= Robert Edwards (British) Pioneer of IVF treatment 14

26= Seamus Heaney (Irish) Poet 14

31 Harold Pinter (British) Writer & Dramatist 13

32= Flossie Wong-Staal (Chinese) Bio-technologist 12

32= Bobby Fischer (American) Chess Player 12

32= Prince (American) Musician 12

32= Henrik Gorecki (Polish) Composer 12

32= Avram Noam Chomski (American) Philosopher & linguist 12

32= Sebastian Thrun (German) Probabilistic roboticist 12

32= Nima Arkani Hamed (Canadian) Physicist 12

32= Margaret Turnbull (American) Astrobiologist 12

40= Elaine Pagels (American) Historian 11

40= Enrique Ostrea (Philippino) Pediatrics & neonatology 11

40= Gary Becker (American) Economist 11

43= Mohammed Ali (American) Boxer 10

43= Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10

43= Bill Gates (American) Businessman 10

43= Philip Roth (American) Writer 10

43= James West (American) Invented the foil electrical microphone 10

43= Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese) Bio-Medical Scientist 10

49= Brian Wilson (American) Musician 9

49= Stevie Wonder (American) Singer songwriter 9

49= Vint Cerf (American) Computer scientist 9

49= Henry Kissinger (American) Diplomat and politician 9

49= Richard Branson (British) Publicist 9

49= Pardis Sabeti (Iranian) Biological anthropologist 9

49= Jon de Mol (Dutch) Television producer 9

49= Meryl Streep (American) Actress 9

49= Margaret Attwood (Canadian) Writer 9

58= Placido Domingo (Spanish) Singer 8

58= John Lasseter (American) Digital Animator 8

58= Shunpei Yamazaki (Japanese) Computer scientist & physicist 8

58= Jane Goodall (British) Ethologist & Anthropologist 8

58= Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (Indian) Historian 8

58= John Goto (British) Photographer 8

58= Paul McCartney (British) Musician 8

58= Stephen King (American) Writer 8

 

58= Leonard Cohen (Canadian) Poet & musician 8

 

67= Aretha Franklin (American) Musician 7

67= David Bowie (British) Musician 7

67= Emily Oster (American) Economist 7

67= Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers 7

67= Martin Cooper (American) Inventor of the cell phone 7

72= George Lucas (American) Film maker 6

72= Niles Rogers (American) Musician 6

72= Hans Zimmer (German) Composer 6

72= John Williams (American) Composer 6

72= Annette Baier (New Zealander) Philosopher 6

72= Dorothy Rowe (British) Psychologist 6

72= Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian) Artist & sculptor 6

72= Robin Escovado (American) Composer 6

72= Mark Dean (American) Inventor & computer scientist 6

 

72= Rick Rubin (American) Musician & producer 6

72= Stan Lee (American) Publisher 6

83= David Warren (Australian) Engineer 5

83= Jon Fosse (Norwegian) Writer & dramatist

83= Gjertrud Schnackenberg (American) Poet 5

83= Graham Linehan (Irish) Writer & dramatist 5

83= JK Rowling (British) Writer 5

83= Ken Russell (British) Film maker 5

83= Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian) Small arms designer 5

83= Erich Jarvis (American) Neurobiologist 5

91=. Chad Varah (British) Founder of Samaritans 4

91= Nicolas Hayek (Swiss) Businessman and founder of Swatch 4

91= Alastair Hannay (British) Philosopher 4

94= Patricia Bath (American) Ophthalmologist

94= Thomas A. Jackson (American) Aerospace engineer 3

94= Dolly Parton (American) Singer 3

94= Morissey (British) Singer 3

94= Michael Eavis (British) Organiser of Glastonbury 3

94= Ranulph Fiennes (British) Adventurer 3

100=. Quentin Tarantino (American) Filmmaker 2

 

 

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Osama Bin Laden gets a vote? (Do you think he'll turn up at the award ceremony???) And where's Hiltler? Einstein? Kirby? That guy off the Subway ads?

 

Ha, I suppose you could look at this this way. Put your hand up if you have ever watched the Simpsons.....OK, thats everyone.....and now put your had up if you've ever used LSD (that's what Hoffmans famous for)....OK, just Greggy....

Top 100 living...Hitler Einstein and Kirby are Dead.

Some would argue Osama , as well.

 

Your right, my bad! (Didn't know Kalashnikov was still alive. Suppose he could be...produced the AK47 in 1947...he'd be in his 80's)

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well then they ranked him #3 actually cause hoffman @ #1 has passed. I believe he discovered LSD

 

10-4, he did....well didn't discovered it, more like developed it. US Army wanted something to deploy against enemy troops, but it was considered 'chemical warfare' and therefore negated useless under the Geneva (comic) Convention!

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well then they ranked him #3 actually cause hoffman @ #1 has passed. I believe he discovered LSD

 

10-4, he did....well didn't discovered it, more like developed it. US Army wanted something to deploy against enemy troops, but it was considered 'chemical warfare' and therefore negated useless under the Geneva (comic) Convention!

 

LSD was used as a 'truth serum' in combination with electro-shock therapy. Hoffman discovered it effects on a bike ride home one day....

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Osama Bin Laden gets a vote? (Do you think he'll turn up at the award ceremony???) And where's Hiltler? Einstein? Kirby? That guy off the Subway ads?

 

Ha, I suppose you could look at this this way. Put your hand up if you have ever watched the Simpsons.....OK, thats everyone.....and now put your had up if you've ever used LSD (that's what Hoffmans famous for)....OK, just Greggy....

 

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What a load. Dolly Parton? JK Rowling ? Robert Crumb? Typical liberal intellectual elitism. If you are going to have those people, how about-

 

Shigeru Miyamoto

Steve Jobs

Steve Wozniak

Robert Penrose

Ted Hoff

Carver Mead ( another glaring omission.)

 

My list could go on, the authors of the above list , obviously, have other agendas.

 

 

Morissey? What garbage.

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well then they ranked him #3 actually cause hoffman @ #1 has passed. I believe he discovered LSD

 

10-4, he did....well didn't discovered it, more like developed it. US Army wanted something to deploy against enemy troops, but it was considered 'chemical warfare' and therefore negated useless under the Geneva (comic) Convention!

 

LSD was used as a 'truth serum' in combination with electro-shock therapy. Hoffman discovered it effects on a bike ride home one day....

 

LSD was first developed as a chemical weapon for mass deployment against numerous enemy combatants. Then when they decided that it would fall the wrong side of the Geneva, they trial it as a truth serum. It dosen't work. As an Hallucinogenic the intelligence received is not 20% reliable, never mind 100%. If you intel's wrong, soldiers die. Not worth the risk and there's much better stuff out there at the moment. (I believe the US has an interogation system with water and buckets which is proving quite effective!)

 

US and British Armies are responsible for most modern technology....cell phones....internet.....GPS.....etc....etc. Eg: The US Amry wanted a means to comunicate worldwide with a system that would still be operational even if enemy forces took out key communication towers....hence the internet. Gods knows what they've got that will only be released when they better it.

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