Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
Lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome
scientist
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian-American physician, biologist, oncologist, and author
Robert K. Merton
American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology
Primo Levi
Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist
Thomas S. Kuhn
American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom
Andrew Hodges
British mathematician and author.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics
Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker