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...supervised the project, is the issue's sheer size. "I realized straight off that if I had to edit 92 pages all at once, I'd burst," he says. So he, deputy chief of reporters ANDREA DORFMAN, and TIME's science staff began working on it nearly a year ago; by last fall their list of the greatest minds of the century had been boiled down to a few dozen names. In November Elmer-DeWitt began handing out writing assignments...
Despite all the advance planning, we had to be ready to rethink the issue at any time. A few weeks ago, science-fiction writer BRUCE STERLING persuaded us that the century has been shaped as much by bad scientists as by good ones. We decided on the spot to pull together the feature on "cranks, villains and unsung heroes" that you'll find inside...
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was the last great society portraitist--the Van Dyck of his time, as Auguste Rodin was the first to say. Twenty years ago, to confess an admiration (however sneaking) for his work was to invite incredulity. Sargent? That flatterer of the Edwardian rich? That fat-cat holdover, that facile topographer of the social Alps, that living irrelevance to the concerns of modernism? But what goes around comes around. Sargent's reputation is back as though it had never gone away. Once again, if one can judge from the attendance at the Sargent show...
Welcome to the fourth of our TIME 100 special issues profiling the hundred most influential people of the century. We began a year ago by picking 20 leaders and revolutionaries, followed by artists and entertainers, then business titans. Now comes our convocation of the greatest minds: this century's 20 most influential scientists, thinkers and inventors...
...following year we did covers on Sigmund Freud and Leo Baekeland, who both made it onto our list this week. Science and technology have been particular interests of mine: this is the 40th cover related to these fields that we've done since I became managing editor 40 months ago...