The Century's Greatest Minds
March 29, 1999
Albert Einstein / Sigmund Freud / The Wright Brothers / Jean Piaget / Alexander Fleming / Alan Turing...

COVER: TIME 100 Scientists and thinkers
SIGMUND FREUD: Mind of His Own - His theories turned the unconscious into a battleground THE WRIGHT BROTHERS: Touch the Sky - Their fledgling flight radically opened our horizons ALBERT EINSTEIN: Wise Guy - He found the essential structure of the cosmos in his head
LEO BAEKELAND: Plastic Man - He made the stuff from which stuff is made
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: The Science of Meaning - He taught us to be suspicious of what we think of our minds
PHILO FARNSWORTH: Man of the People - An ordinary Joe and a teen genius, he invented the television
ROBERT GODDARD: High-Flyer - Mockery pushed him to make rockets that soared
JEAN PIAGET: Kid's Stuff - His learning about children changed the way we teach them
ALEXANDER FLEMING: Magic Cure - The discovery of penicillin was a miraculous accident
EDWIN HUBBLE: Space Age - He discovered the universe, wich is vast and getting bigger
KURT GODEL: Flawed Systems - By turning mathematics upon itself, he proved its limits
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: Money for Nothing - Pushing government spending, he may have saved capitalism
ALAN TURING: Computer Programmer - From his ideas came a machine to mimic human reasoning
ENRICO FERMI: Bombardier
- He harnessed nuclear energy, though not its implications WILLIAM SHOCKLEY; Chip on His Shoulder - A cloud of racial hate hovered over the father of the transistor
JONAS SALK: All in the Timing - Discovering a polio vaccine, he found fame and enemies WATSON & CRICK: Winning Team It took partners to find the secret of life in complementarity RACHEL CARSON; Power of Words - HIs brave book spawned the modern environmental movement
THE LEAKEY FAMILY: Tree ot Knowledge - They shaped what we know about where we come from
TIM BERNERS-LEE: Spin-Master - His World Wide Web created a mass medium for our times