Even Sir Isaac Newton recognized that intellectual success depended on what had come before: "If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants,” he so famously said. But while we ...

The most influential person on Wikipedia has been revealed, but rather than Jesus or Barack Obama taking the top spot, it has strangely gone to a Swedish botanist. Carl Linnaeus, who topped the list ...

Move over, Jesus. Step aside, Hitler. Neither of you has got anything on Carl Linnaeus, inventor of the scientific naming scheme for plants and animals, who has been crowned the most influential ...