Other Distinguished Scholars and Famous People

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Walter Alvarez geology 5

David Blackwell mathematics, statistics 2

Malcolm K. Brachman nuclear physics, oil, bridge 6

Sergey Brin Google 3

Rudolf Carnap philosophy 4

Gregory Chaitin mathematics 3

Ahmad Chalabi Iraqi politics 6

Jule G. Charney meteorology 4

Noam Chomsky linguistics 4

Francis Collins biology 3

Freeman J. Dyson quantum physics 2

Paul R. Ehrlich population studies 4

Georg Frobenius mathematics 3

George Gamow nuclear physics and cosmology 4

Kurt Gödel mathematics 3

Stephen Hawking relativity and cosmology 4

David Hilbert mathematics 4

John J. Hopfield physics and neuroscience 5

Pascual Jordan quantum physics 4

Theodore von Kármán aeronautical engineering 4

Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir scientist and Israeli president 2

Tom Lehrer music performance 4

Benoit Mandelbrot mathematics (fractals) 3

Danica McKellar acting and popular math writing 4

Angela Merkel German politics 5

Oskar Morgenstern economics 4

Elon Musk entrepreneur 4

Rolf Nevanlinna mathematics 5

J. Robert Oppenheimer nuclear physics 4

Larry Page Google 3

Roger Penrose relativity and cosmology 3

Jean Piaget psychology 3

Karl Popper philosophy 4

Srinivasa Ramanujan mathematics 3

Carl Sagan astronomy 4

Edwin E. Salpeter astrophysics 5

Issai Schur mathematics 2

Claude E. Shannon electrical engineering 3

Waclaw Sierpinski mathematics 2

James Simons investing 3

John Maynard Smith biology 4

Ronald L. Smith mathematics and bridge 3

Arnold Sommerfeld atomic physics 4

Ivar Stakgold mathematics and bridge 4

H. Eugene Stanley physics and interdisciplinary 4

Leo Szilard physics (Manhattan Project) 4

Edward Teller nuclear physics 3

John Wilder Tukey statistics 2

Alan Turing computer science 5

George Uhlenbeck atomic physics 2

J. Craig Venter biology 3

John von Neumann mathematics 3

John A. Wheeler nuclear physics 3

Stephen Wolfram inventor of Mathematica 2

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