I was researching a quiz on Thomas Young & came across the claim he was the last person to know everything (if you have not heard of him he was a Natural Philosopher & Egyptologist). This started me wondering -
Who else has this claim beem made for?
Who was the last person who was a top university level expert in every part of Physics, Chemistry (as opposed to e.g. Organic Chemistry), Biology etc?
The dates would be particularly intersting.

other claimants to this title are Gottfried Leibniz, Leonardo da Vinci, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Francis Bacon, among others.

James Crichton (1560-1582) a Scottish polymath, expert in languages, art and sciences. Roger Bacon (1214-1294) 'Doctor Mirabilis' a brilliant Franciscan friar who was one of the great scientist/philosophers. More recently Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) a mathematician/philosopher, John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) the world's greatest economist, Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) actor writer, director etc. One of the most amazing people currently is Stephen Fry (1957- ) actor, writer, director, polymath.

Regards,

Tin