9. Galileo Galilei (IQ: 185)
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer, who helped begin the scientific revolution. Galilei is considered today as an eminent man of Renaissance and with broad interests in many fields, including painting, literature, music and primarily sciences. His achievements including various astronomical observations, improvements on telescope and decisive support for Copernican heliocentric system, His works were thought at the time as disruptive to established physics theories and theological concepts. His insistence that the universe can be explained in mathematical language has also brought radical changes in his era.
