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Originally Posted by JA
Very good point Hans.
I was going to pick Marie Curie as my female nominee and in the male category Nikola Tesla and a bunch of others: Newton, Einstein, Euclid, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, etc... Actually looking at them all, with the exception of Leonardo they're all focused solely on scientific discovery and achievement, but scientific smarts is not the only game in town. There's arts, politics, business, music etc.....
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JA
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Da Vinci has to score high given he received no formal education and was essentially self taught having both a scientific and artistic mind. Of particular note is how he wrote his Codex Leicester.