Smithsonian Magazine has named Seventh-day Adventist co-founder and author Ellen G. White among the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time. “It is good to see an institution of Smithsonian’s caliber giving proper acknowledgement to Ellen White,” said William Fagal, associate director of the Ellen G. White Estate. Ellen G. White shares the spot with other religious leaders including Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism; Anne Hutchinson, Puritan spiritual adviser and Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. Other categories include Presidents and First Ladies, Artists and Pop Icons, Trail blazers and Outlaws and Empire Builders.
Smithsonian's list is based on the work of computer scientists Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward, who analyzed massive troves of historical reputation data that derives from the English-language Wikipedia (which hosts over 840,000 pages devoted to individuals from all times and places) and from the more than 15 million books Google has scanned.
To view the Smithsonian’s 100 Most Significant Americans list, visit: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/meet-100-most-significant-americans-all-time-180953341/?no-ist and to read an editorial about the list finding, visit Adventist Review online: http://www.adventistreview.org/church-news/ellen-g.-white-named-among-100-most-significant-americans/code>