"I'm glad I was included, but I can't be overly happy that I am," he said.
Glashow said he did not know whether he thought the results were accurate.
"I don't know. I don't think that the author is a scientist," he said. "I doubt that the author would have done well in any of my courses."
Wilson, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his book The Ants could not be reached for comment.
Simmons said that any such ranking of scientists will obviously be subjective.
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"Ranking was not my idea; it was the publisher's," Simmons said. "There are obviously more than 100 famous scientists."