Britain has more living geniuses per head of population than anywhere else in the world, according to a new survey which reveals the country's influence on science, technology, business and the arts.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web.
Almost a quarter of those featured in the list of 100 living geniuses are Bri
Almost a quarter of those featured in the list of 100 living geniuses are Britons, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web, in joint first place, and physicist Stephen Hawking at seven in the list.
British artists and musicians feature heavily, including Brit Art leader Damien Hirst at number 15, poet Seamus Heaney at 26, playwright Harold Pinter at 31, Sir Paul McCart
British artists and musicians feature heavily, including Brit Art leader Damien Hirst at number 15, poet Seamus Heaney at 26, playwright Harold Pinter at 31, Sir Paul McCart
ney at 58, David Bowie at 67, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
Sir Richard Branson, the head of Virgin Group, at 49, chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall, at 58, and psychologist Dorothy Rowe, at 72, also made the list.With 24 Britons
Sir Richard Branson, the head of Virgin Group, at 49, chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall, at 58, and psychologist Dorothy Rowe, at 72, also made the list.With 24 Britons
in the list, the country has generated one living genius per 2.5 million people – a higher proportion than any other country.The list, compiled by a panel of six experts in creativity and
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nnovation, is jointly topped by Sir Tim and Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who created the drug LSD.
They are followed by George Soros, the American financier and philanthropist, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Nelson Mandela, the former South African president.
There are also some surprise entrants. Osama Bin Laden ranks at number 43, a spot he shares with Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and Mohammed Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion.
The Americans have 43 geniuses on the list – one per 6.9 million people.
Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm, chose their geniuses by awarding scores
They are followed by George Soros, the American financier and philanthropist, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Nelson Mandela, the former South African president.
There are also some surprise entrants. Osama Bin Laden ranks at number 43, a spot he shares with Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and Mohammed Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion.
The Americans have 43 geniuses on the list – one per 6.9 million people.
Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm, chose their geniuses by awarding scores
out of 10 to each entrant against a number of factor
s: paradigm shifting; popular acclaim; intellectual power; achievement and cultural importance. The firm emailed 4,000 Britons this summer and asked them to nominate up to 10 living people who they considered geniuses.
They received back 1,100 nominations for individuals in all walks of life, more than 60 per cent of whom were either American or English. Only 60 per cent were still alive.
The panel was then charged with ranking the list in order of genius and to present a resulting shortlist of 100, who were then scored against the five factors.
They received back 1,100 nominations for individuals in all walks of life, more than 60 per cent of whom were either American or English. Only 60 per cent were still alive.
The panel was then charged with ranking the list in order of genius and to present a resulting shortlist of 100, who were then scored against the five factors.
1= Albert Hoffman (Swiss) Chemist 27
2= 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
6= Frederick Sanger (British) Chemist 23
7= Dario Fo (Italian) Writer & Dramatist 22
8= Steven Hawking (British) Physicist 22
9= Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian) Architect 21
10= Philip Glass (American) Composer 21
11= Grigory Perelman (Russian) Mathematician 21
12= Andrew Wiles (British) Mathematician 20
13= Li Hongzhi (Chinese) Spiritual Leader 20
14= Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer 20
15= Brian Eno (British) Composer 19
16= Damian Hirst (British) Artist 19
17= 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
21= Richard Dawkins (British) Biologist and philosopher 16
22= Larry Page & Sergey Brin (American) Publishers 16
23= Rupert Murdoch (American) Publisher 16
24= Geoffrey Hill (British) Poet 16
25= Garry Kasparov (Russian) Chess Player 15
26= The Dalai Lama (Tibetan) Spiritual Leader 14
27= Steven Spielberg (American) Film maker 14
28= Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japanese) Roboticist 14
29= Robert Edwards (British) Pioneer of IVF treatment 14
30= Seamus Heaney (Irish) Poet 14
31= Harold Pinter (British) Writer & Dramatist 13
32= Flossie Wong-Staal (Chinese) Bio-technologist 12
33= Bobby Fischer (American) Chess Player 12
34= Prince (American) Musician 12
35= Henrik Gorecki (Polish) Composer 12
36= Avram Noam Chomski (American) Philosopher & linguist 12
37= Sebastian Thrun (German) Probabilistic roboticist 12
38= Nima Arkani Hamed (Canadian) Physicist 12
39= Margaret Turnbull (American) Astrobiologist 12
40= Elaine Pagels (American) Historian 11
41= Enrique Ostrea (Philippino) Pediatrics & neonatology 11
42= Gary Becker (American) Economist 11
43= Mohammed Ali (American) Boxer 10
44= Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10
45= Bill Gates (American) Businessman 10
46= Philip Roth (American) Writer 10
47= James West (American) Invented the foil electrical microphone 10
48= Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese) Bio-Medical Scientist 10
49= Brian Wilson (American) Musician 9
50= Stevie Wonder (American) Singer songwriter 9
51= Vint Cerf (American) Computer scientist 9
52= Henry Kissinger (American) Diplomat and politician 9
53= Richard Branson (British) Publicist 9
54= Pardis Sabeti (Iranian) Biological anthropologist 9
55= Jon de Mol (Dutch) Television producer 9
56= Meryl Streep (American) Actress 9
57= Margaret Attwood (Canadian) Writer 9
58= Placido Domingo (Spanish) Singer 8
59= John Lasseter (American) Digital Animator 8
60= Shunpei Yamazaki (Japanese) Computer scientist & physicist 8
61= Jane Goodall (British) Ethologist & Anthropologist 8
62= Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (Indian) Historian 8
63= John Goto (British) Photographer 8
64= Paul McCartney (British) Musician 8
65= Stephen King (American) Writer 8
66= Leonard Cohen (American) Poet & musician 8
67= Aretha Franklin (American) Musician 7
68= David Bowie (British) Musician 7
69= Emily Oster (American) Economist 7
70= Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers 7
71= Martin Cooper (American) Inventor of the cell phone 7
72= George Lucas (American) Film maker 6
73= Niles Rogers (American) Musician 6
74= Hans Zimmer (German) Composer 6
75= John Williams (American) Composer 6
76= Annette Baier (New Zealander) Philosopher 6
77= Dorothy Rowe (British) Psychologist 6
78= Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian) Artist & sculptor 6
79= Robin Escovado (American) Composer 6
80= Mark Dean (American) Inventor & computer scientist 6
81= Rick Rubin (American) Musician & producer 6
82= Stan Lee (American) Publisher 6
83= David Warren (Australian) Engineer 5
84= Jon Fosse (Norwegian) Writer & dramatist
85= Gjertrud Schnackenberg (American) Poet 5
86= Graham Linehan (Irish) Writer & dramatist 5
87= JK Rowling (British) Writer 5
88= Ken Russell (British) Film maker 5
89= Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian) Small arms designer 5
90= Erich Jarvis (American) Neurobiologist 5
91=. Chad Varah (British) Founder of Samaritans 4
92= Nicolas Hayek (Swiss) Businessman and founder of Swatch 4
93= Alastair Hannay (British) Philosopher 4
94= Patricia Bath (American) Ophthalmologist
95= Thomas A. Jackson (American) Aerospace engineer 3
96= Dolly Parton (American) Singer 3
97= Morissey (British) Singer 3
98= Michael Eavis (British) Organiser of Glastonbury 3
99= Ranulph Fiennes (British) Adventurer 3
100= Quentin Tarantino (American) Filmmaker 2
Source: The Telegraph - 28th of October, 2007.
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