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Interesting question.
And I'm sure you'll get a lot of interesting responses.
I remember reading somewhere that Steven Hawking will be remembered as one of the smartest men of all time, because of the fact that he was in the wheelchair and that distinct "voice". Yet his contemporaries didn't hold him in the same regard.
Also, Einstein's first wife did A LOT of the calculations and a lot of work on his first thesis, but did not get any recognition at all.
Sorry, I know it doesn't answer your question, but I bring this up as a point that who we believe to be the smartest and biggest contributors aren't necessarily the same people that history says are.
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