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Interesting comments re: pandemics and transition states. This reminds me of your 2005 table "Poll: Most Life Changing and Least Life Changing Variations of Cessation" and EPD; one wonders if a similar tabulation may be made for events on a societal or civilisational level, linking these t...

Alexey Ivakhnenko
George Cayley
Hans von Ohain
Frank Whittle
Ludwig Prandtl
Theodore von Kármán
Robert H. Goddard
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Re: Carnap "G¨odel, discoverer of mathematical undecidability, took a proreligious view; Carnap, one of the founders of analytical philosophy, an antireligious view. By the time of the discussion, Carnap had liberalized his ideas on theoretical concepts of science: he believed that observationa...

Edward Witten
Stephen Wolfram
Linus Torvalds
Demis Hassabis

I saw that you recently added some candidates I was about to mention: Rawls Quine Moore Here are some more names to amplify, along these lines: Nozick Carnap Frank Ramsey (oft-considered meteoric genius among philosophers; https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/frank-ramsey-a-more-human-philosophy/) Als...

The website does work and present better, Thims. Good to know that it will proceed more smoothly. New additions are looking good, including some that I had thought about. Incidentally, pandemics are good for rearranging bonds. Some comments on notability of Wycliffe and Mirandola. Wycliffe seems to ...

Some names to start off considering of missing medieval geniuses, comparing with the full list (https://hmolpedia.com/page/Top_2000_minds_(full_list)):
John Scotus Eriugena
Nicole Oresme
Jean Buridan
Anselm of Canterbury
Peter Abelard
John Wycliffe
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola