Who go on to be truly great scientists:IQ is one thing but the ability for detailed observational work which goes hand in hand with stepping back to see a synthetic picture that omits no detail is at the heart of it.
In short able to play as an true allrounder:
that is what you see shining through in Newton’s notebooks:
his eye for things like history, chemistry, biology things that you don’t normally associate with him
Yet there is place for quite some variety of individuals within science.