Top 10 Unsung Geniuses

For these scientists, success and fame did not come in equal measure

Illustrations: Mike Reddy

By Tom Siegfried

It’s easy to name science and math geniuses. I can just flip open my old book from the 1960s, which lists “100 Great Scientists”; it contains all the names you’d find on most popular lists of scientific geniuses: Einstein, Newton, Maxwell, Gauss, Bohr, Archimedes…