I always see the Apocalypse. So there is probably no cause for alarm.

Unless I’m right. That does happen from time to time.

Rosalind Franklin was not actually working for Watson and Crick. Also, her writings indicate that she was already aware of the structure of DNA by the time Watson and Crick were offered a sneak glance at plate 51. So really, shouldn’t she maybe get a card, herself? Technically, she would have been eligible for the Nobel prize if she hadn’t died five years prior to the decision to award it to Watson and Crick.

Benoit Mandelbrot, Georges Braque, Joseph Beuys, Bridget Riley, Richard Feynmann, Martin Gardner, Buckminster Fuller, Daniel Dennett, Philip K Dick, Alfred Jarry, Samuel Beckett, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Blake, Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, R D Laing, Eric Satie, John Cage, Robert Hooke, Marcel Duchamp, Mark E Smith, David Hume, David Lindsay, Thomas Pynchon, Alexander Rodchenko, Sigmar Polke, Arnold Geulincx.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poststructuralism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_thinkers_influenced_by_deconstruction

Figured out the basic pattern of narrative structure that is the foundation for much of western literature / theater / film / poetry / music.

William Kingdon Clifford, FRS – Clifford algebra (the algebra of physics, in particular the Dirac theory of the electron), proposed that mass and energy are curvatures of space more than 30 years before Einstein

Richard Feynman – Feynman diagrams, quantum electrodynamics, Feynman Lectures, nanotechnology, etc.

Claude Shannon – information theory

Jagadis Chandra Bose, FRS – inventor of radio, millimeter-wave remote-control in the 1890s

Carl Friedrich Gauss – the greatest mathematician

Robert Hooke, FRS – discoverer of cells and much else

Douglas Hofstadter – author of Godel, Escher Bach

Benjamin Franklin, FRS

Robert Anton Wilson – uncategorizable writing

Samuel Delany – SF writing

Gene Wolfe – fiction

K. Eric Drexler – molecular nanotechnology

Neal Stephenson – writing

Charles Stross – SF writing

Rudy Rucker – SF writing

Greg Egan – SF writing

John Brunner – wrote the most accurately predictive SF novel, The Shockwave Rider

Rene Magritte – painting

M. C. Escher – prints

Leonardo da Vinci – drawings, inventions, physics investigations

Gottfried Leibniz – mathematics and philosophy

Epicurus – the most scientific of the early Greek philosophers

I’m getting tired, but need to mention:
Homer, J.S. Mill, Montaigne, Jung, Pascal, Spinoza, Mark Twain, Lewis Caroll, Scott Adams, Bill Watterson, George Carlin, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Imhotep, and John Taylor Gatto