Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

male, deceased (1790)
inventor, Founding Father of the United States, Signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, lightning rod, electricity, great scientist…scientist, from Massachusetts
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist,...
Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

male, 80 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
linguist, philosopher, Left Wing, Chomsky hierarchy, philosopher of mind, theoretical linguistics…scientist, Cognitive scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

male, deceased (1988) (FAR ROCKAWAY, New York, United States)
scientist, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, physicist, Caltech, free spirit, Princeton University alumni…Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of...
Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman

male, 56 years old
Princeton University faculty, Trade Economist, Long-Term Capital Management, pundits, new economy, fixed exchange rate…Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, scientist
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28 , 1953 ) is an American economist . Krugman is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at...
Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

male, deceased (1922)
inventor, telephone, scientist, American, immigrant to Canada, immigrant to the United States…from Massachusetts
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated...
Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

male, 55 years old
linguist, Cognitive scientist, The Language Instinct, Harvard University faculty, scientist, evolutionary psychology
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching...
Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen

male, 69 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
global warming skeptic, Bert Bolin, atmospheric physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, planetary waves, KNMI…Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientist
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the...
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

male, deceased (1862)
American, anarchist, anarchism, environmentalist, free market, nature writer…from Massachusetts, Massachusetts writer, scientist
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, de...
Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy

female, deceased (1910)
Founder of religions, Mary Morse Baker, Mary Baker Glover, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Mary Baker Glover Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures…Church of Christ, Scientist, from Lynn, Massachusetts, scientist
Mary Baker Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, "Science and Health with...
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