Emeagwali is Top Scientist on the Internet
Climbs to the number-one spot as the world's most searched-for contemporary scientist.
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Emeagwali
April 7, 2003 9:43 a.m.
Source: Donita Brown
(NEW YORK, NY) -- When a British mensa society voted Emeagwali as the "smartest man alive," many in the media asked: Who is Emeagwali? How come he is not famous? (Sunday Herald, Glasgow, May 5, 2002)
To settle this question, we asked: Who is the world's top scientist? Is it Britain's most famous physicist Stephen Hawkings? Is it America's most famous scientist Stephen Jay Gould? Is it computer pioneer and Nobel laureate Jack Kilby?
The answer is: "None of the above."
Just as The New York Times Best Seller List tells us what people are reading, the 300 million daily searches tells us what people are searching online. The number of searches conducted on a person is a deep and democratic poll of how much the individual is in demand or interesting. It provides an objective measure of who's hot and who's not.
Given that only one percent of Africans are online, this survey reveals who is popular at the grassroots level in the United States and Europe. Yet, it is a clear and unbiased picture of who captured the public's attention in the Western world.
Because of our human nature, we incorporate our bias when asked to guess who is the most searched-for scientist. As they say, numbers do not lie. Let's leave it to the search engines to determine which celebrity is most searched-for. Below are the numbers extracted from Yahoo, MSN, Lycos and Altavista which revealed the ten most "searched for" contemporary scientists for the month of February 2003.
See any surprises?
Emeagwali #1 in
Top Most Searched-For Scientists
Top 10 Scientists Overall / Month Ending: March 1, 2003
PositionSearchesScientist & Claim to Fame185140Philip EMEAGWALI - supercomputer and Internet pioneer284450David SUZUKI - Canada's most famous scientist384420Tim Berners LEE - inventor of the World Wide Web481690Alan TURING - computer science icon580280Richard FEYNMAN - iconoclastic physicist, Nobel laureate658620John von NEUMANN - a mathematician's mathematician758614Linus TORVALDS - father of Linux operating system854630Stephen HAWKINGS - Britain's most famous scientist950880Stephen Jay GOULD - America's most famous scientist1030780Jack KILBY - computer scientist and Nobel Laureate
The above results raises an interesting question: Why do a search on Emeagwali instead of typing emeagwali.com? That's what 55,676 visitors do each week.
Emeagwali #3 in
Webmaster's Most-Linked Scientists
Webmaster's Top 10 Scientists Overall / Month Ending: March 1, 2003
PositionLinksScientist & Claim to Fame12912Alan TURING - computer science icon22581Tim Berners LEE - inventor of the World Wide Web32501Philip EMEAGWALI - supercomputer and Internet pioneer41321Stephen HAWKINGS - Britain's most famous scientist5459Linus TORVALDS - father of Linux operating system6356Richard FEYNMAN - iconoclastic physicist, Nobel laureate7336John von NEUMANN - a mathematician's mathematician8101Jack KILBY - computer scientist and Nobel Laureate997Stephen Jay GOULD - America's most famous scientist1017David SUZUKI - Canada's most famous scientist
About EMEAGWALI.COM
Emeagwali.com is the first personal site on the Internet. Each year, it serves 8 million pages to 2.6 million people. Half of our visitors are students writing school reports. The other half visit to read materials on a wide range of subjects.
Emeagwali #2 in
Top Most Searched-For Nigerians
30 Most Fascinating Nigerians / Month Ending: March 1, 2003
Position SearchesName & Claim to Fame1153420Chinua ACHEBE - author of "Things Fall Apart" 285140Philip EMEAGWALI - supercomputer and internet pioneer385020Hakeem OLAJUWON - basketball superstar440590Wole SOYINKA - writer, Nobel laureate535850Fela KUTI - king of afro-beat music633210Amina LAWAL - persecuted for bearing a child outside marriage718180Chris OFILI - controversial artist817640Femi KUTI - afro-beat superstar916650Sani ABACHA - maximum ruler 1015570Ken SARO-WIWA - murdered writer/activist1113560Ben OKRI - writer1213200Buchi EMECHETA - writer 1311430Onweagba OLUCHI - model149120Queen AMINA - 16th century Hausa warrior158250Sunny ADE - juju musician168070Kanu NWANKWO - soccer superstar177680Olusegun OBASANJO - president of Nigeria187500Agbani DAREGO - former Miss World194590Nnamdi AZIKIWE - former president202490Obafemi AWOLOWO - Yoruba leader212190Ibrahim BABANGIDA - former military dictator222070Odumegwu OJUKWU - rebel leader231980Moshood ABIOLA - political leader241950Dick
TIGER - boxing champion251440Muhammadu BUHARI - military dictator261170John FASHANU - soccer superstar271110Chike OBI - mathematician28 (tie)900Mohammed MURTALA - military dictator28 (tie)900Yakubu GOWON - military dictator30810Francis ARINZE - touted as potential pope
Emeagwali #8 in
Top Most Searched-For Africans
Top 12 Persons / Month Ending: March 1, 2003
Position SearchesName & Claim to Fame11532850Nelson MANDELA - anti-apartheid activist, Nobel laureate 2333960Kofi Annan - United Nations leader, Nobel laureate 3171300Shaka ZULU - Zulu leader 4167970Desmond TUTU - anti-apartheid activist, Nobel laureate 5164160Idi AMIN - brutal Ugandan dictator6153420Chinua ACHEBE - author of "Things Fall Apart" 7108390Haile SELASSIE - emperor of Ethiopia885140Philip EMEAGWALI - supercomputer and internet pioneer985020Hakeem OLAJUWON - basketball superstar1067680Winnie MANDELA - anti-apartheid crusader 1166000Nadine GORDIMER - writer, Nobel laureate 1261650Anwar SADAT - Egyptian leader, Nobel laureate
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