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Henry Kissinger
is a German-born American diplomat, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Nixon administration |
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Mikhail Bulgakov
was a Russian-language novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for the novel The Master and Margarita.
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Timothy Leary
a 1960s counterculture icon, he is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
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David Deutsch
He pioneered the field of quantum computers, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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Benoît Mandelbrot
He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University; IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center; and Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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Raymond Kurzweil
He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity, and futurism |
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Norbert Wiener
Wiener is perhaps best known as the founder of cybernetics, a field that formalizes the notion of feedback and has implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. Outside anthropology, his works have had a large influence on contemporary thought, |
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