Ниже – таблица живущих ныне 100 гениев, отобранных экспертами компании
Creators Synectics, которая специализируется на консалтинге в области креатива и инноваций. Список опубликован в лондонской газете Daily Telegraph. Четверть гениев проживает в Великобритании, трое – в России (9 математик Григорий Перельман, 25 шахматист Гарри Каспаров, 83 оружейник Михаил Тимофеевич Калашников). Ещё один наш соотечественник – 72 художник и скульптор Иван Марчук (Украина). Китайских гениев – три (включая Далай Ламу). Цифры справа - количество набранных баллов.
1= Albert Hoffman (Swiss) Chemist 27 1= 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 5= Frederick Sanger (British) Chemist 23 7= Dario Fo (Italian) Writer & Dramatist 22 7= Steven Hawking (British) Physicist 22 9= Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian) Architect 21 9= Philip Glass (American) Composer 21 9= Grigory Perelman (Russian) Mathematician 21 12= Andrew Wiles (British) Mathematician 20 12= Li Hongzhi (Chinese) Spiritual Leader
20 12= Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer 20 15= Brian Eno (British) Composer 19 15= Damian Hirst (British) Artist 19 15= 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 20= Richard Dawkins (British) Biologist and philosopher 16 20= Larry Page & Sergey Brin (American) Publishers 16 20= Rupert Murdoch (American) Publisher 16 20= Geoffrey Hill
(British) Poet 16 25 Garry Kasparov (Russian) Chess Player 15 26= The Dalai Lama (Tibetan) Spiritual Leader 14 26= Steven Spielberg (American) Film maker 14 26= Hiroshi Ishiguro (Japanese) Roboticist 14 26= Robert Edwards (British) Pioneer of IVF treatment 14 26= Seamus Heaney (Irish) Poet 14 31 Harold Pinter (British) Writer & Dramatist 13 32= Flossie Wong-Staal (Chinese) Bio-technologist 12 32= Bobby Fischer (American) Chess Player 12 32= Prince (American)
Musician 12 32= Henrik Gorecki (Polish) Composer 12 32= Avram Noam Chomski (American) Philosopher & linguist 12 32= Sebastian Thrun (German) Probabilistic roboticist 12 32= Nima Arkani Hamed (Canadian) Physicist 12 32= Margaret Turnbull (American) Astrobiologist 12 40= Elaine Pagels (American) Historian 11 40= Enrique Ostrea (Philippino) Pediatrics & neonatology 11 40= Gary Becker (American) Economist 11 43= Mohammed Ali (American) Boxer 10 43= Osama
Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10 43= Bill Gates (American) Businessman 10 43= Philip Roth (American) Writer 10 43= James West (American) Invented the foil electrical microphone 10 43= Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese) Bio-Medical Scientist 10 49= Brian Wilson (American) Musician 9 49= Stevie Wonder (American) Singer songwriter 9 49= Vint Cerf (American) Computer scientist 9 49= Henry Kissinger (American) Diplomat and politician 9 49= Richard Branson (British) Publicist 9 49= Pardis Sabeti (Iranian) Biological anthropologist 9 49= Jon de Mol (Dutch) Television producer 9 49= Meryl Streep (American) Actress 9 49= Margaret Attwood (Canadian) Writer 9 58= Placido Domingo (Spanish) Singer 8 58= John Lasseter (American) Digital Animator 8 58= Shunpei Yamazaki (Japanese) Computer scientist & physicist 8 58= Jane Goodall (British) Ethologist & Anthropologist 8 58= Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (Indian) Historian 8 58= John Goto (British)
Photographer 8 58= Paul McCartney (British) Musician 8 58= Stephen King (American) Writer 8 58= Leonard Cohen (American) Poet & musician 8 67= Aretha Franklin (American) Musician 7 67= David Bowie (British) Musician 7 67= Emily Oster (American) Economist 7 67= Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers 7 67= Martin Cooper (American) Inventor of the cell phone 7 72= George Lucas (American) Film maker 6 72= Niles Rogers (American) Musician
6 72= Hans Zimmer (German) Composer 6 72= John Williams (American) Composer 6 72= Annette Baier (New Zealander) Philosopher 6 72= Dorothy Rowe (British) Psychologist 6 72= Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian) Artist & sculptor 6 72= Robin Escovado (American) Composer 6 72= Mark Dean (American) Inventor & computer scientist 6 72= Rick Rubin (American) Musician & producer 6 72= Stan Lee (American) Publisher 6 83= David Warren (Australian) Engineer 5 83= Jon
Fosse (Norwegian) Writer & dramatist 83= Gjertrud Schnackenberg (American) Poet 5 83= Graham Linehan (Irish) Writer & dramatist 5 83= JK Rowling (British) Writer 5 83= Ken Russell (British) Film maker 5 83= Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian) Small arms designer 5 83= Erich Jarvis (American) Neurobiologist 5 91=. Chad Varah (British) Founder of Samaritans 4 91= Nicolas Hayek (Swiss) Businessman and founder of Swatch 4 91= Alastair Hannay (British)
Philosopher 4 94= Patricia Bath (American) Ophthalmologist 94= Thomas A. Jackson (American) Aerospace engineer 3 94= Dolly Parton (American) Singer 3 94= Morissey (British) Singer 3 94= Michael Eavis (British) Organiser of Glastonbury 3 94= Ranulph Fiennes (British) Adventurer 3 100=. Quentin Tarantino (American) Filmmaker 2
Итак, первое место в списке разделили один из изобретателей Интернета британец Тим Бернерс-Ли и швейцарский химик Альберт Хоффманн, изобретший
наркотик ЛСД. За ними следуют Джордж Сорос - американский финансист и филантроп, Мэтт Гроунинг - создатель "Симсонов", и Нельсон Мандела - бывший президент ЮАР.
Как отмечает газета, несмотря на то, что количественно в списке лидируют американцы (43 против 24 британцев), пропорционально численности населения первое место принадлежит жителям туманного Альбиона.
В число людей, "перевернувших с ног на голову привычные представления о мире", эксперты Creators Synectics включили
и Усаму бен Ладена, который делит 43-ю строчку в списке с боксером Мохаммедом Али и создателем империи Microsoft Биллом Гейтсом.
А вообще список имеет смысл изучить внимательнее, хотя он, на мой взгляд, далек от объективности, ибо не руководствуется критерием приоритета субъектности.