The Times today published a list of 'the 100 most important figures in British science'. Weirdly, David Willetts, science minister, does not make the list... Being the Times it's all behind a pay wall but if you are interested I've posted the list on the UCL STS department's blog, STS Observatory: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-observatory/?p=532 where comment is free... cheers Jon