Category
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Edward Sapir
American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)
George Emil Palade
Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate

Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist (1939-2022)

James Tobin
American economist (1918–2002)
Thomas A. Steitz
American biochemist (1940–2018)
Robert J. Shiller
American economist
James Rothman
American biologist and Nobel laureate
William Nordhaus
American economist
Harold Bloom
American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)
Timothy Snyder
American historian (born 1969)

Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist (1887–1949)
Robert A. Dahl
American political scientist (1915–2014)

Erich Auerbach
German philologist (1892-1957)

Harvey Williams Cushing
American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)

Michael Rostovtzeff
Russian historian of ancient history (1870–1952)

Clark L. Hull
American psychologist (1884–1952)
Jaroslav Pelikan
US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale (1923–2006)

Ernest William Brown
English-American astronomer and mathematician

Abraham Robinson
American mathematician (1918–1974)
Donald Kagan
American historian (1932-2021)
Paul de Man
Belgian literary theorist (1919–1983)
William O. Douglas
US Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975
Peter Gay
German-American historian and author (1923–2015)
Arthur Melvin Okun
American economist (1928-1980)
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
British zoologist (1903–1991)
Nicholas John Spykman
Dutch-American geopolitician (1893-1943)
James C. Scott
American political scientist and anthropologist
Juan José Linz
Spanish sociologist and political scientist (1926–2013)
Øystein Ore
Norwegian mathematician (1899–1968)
René Wellek
Czech-born American literatury critic (1903–1995)
Joan A. Steitz
American biochemist
Eric A. Havelock
British classical philologist (1903–1988)
Ralph Linton
American anthropologist (1893–1953)
Arnold Gesell
psychologist and pediatrician (1880–1961)

Bruce Ackerman
American scholar of constitutional law
John Lewis Gaddis
American historian of the Cold War (b.1941)
Jonathan Spence
British-born historian
David Brion Davis
American historian (1927–2019)
R. S. Lull
paleontologist (1867-1957)

Herbert Scarf
American academic (1930–2015)
Franz Rosenthal
German arabist (1914–2003)
Samuel J. Danishefsky
American chemist
Ben Kiernan
Australian-born American historian (born 1953)
Guido Calabresi
United States federal judge
Daniel Spielman
American computer scientist
Nicholas A. Christakis
American physician and sociologist
H. Richard Niebuhr
American theologian (1894-1962)
Carl Hovland
American psychologist (1912–1961)
John Farquhar Fulton
American neurophysiologist and historian of science (1899–1960)
Ruslan Medzhitov
Uzbekistani American immunologist
Arthur L. Horwich
American biologist
Ross Granville Harrison
American biologist (1870-1959)
Kenneth Scott Latourette
American historian (1884–1968)

John Hollander
American poet (1929–2013)

Ian Shapiro
American political theorist

Stephen Ross
American economist (1944–2017)
Floyd Lounsbury
American mesoamericanist (1914–1998)

Edmund S. Morgan
American historian (1916-2013)
David Allan Bromley
Canadian-American physicist (1926-2005)