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102 academic bios
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1 / 102 A. A. Milne
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2 / 102 Agatha Christie
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3 / 102 Alexandre Dumas
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4 / 102 Alice Walker
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5 / 102 Anthony Burgess
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6 / 102 Arthur C Clarke
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7 / 102 Arthur Conan Doyle
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8 / 102 Arthur Miller
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9 / 102 Basho
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10 / 102 Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (9-Nov-1934 to 20-Dec-1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect.
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11 / 102 Charlotte Brontë
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12 / 102 Christopher Isherwood
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13 / 102 Christopher Marlowe
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14 / 102 Chuck Palahniuk
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15 / 102 Cory Doctorow
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16 / 102 D. H. Lawrence
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17 / 102 David Foster Wallace
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18 / 102 E. L. Doctorow
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19 / 102 Edgar Wallace
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20 / 102 Emile Zola
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21 / 102 Emily Brontë
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22 / 102 Emir Kusturica
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23 / 102 Evelyn Waugh
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24 / 102 Federico Fellini
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25 / 102 Fyodor Dostoevsky
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26 / 102 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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27 / 102 Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15-Feb-1564 to 8-Jan-1642) was an astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa, in modern-day Italy. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science"
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28 / 102 Geoffrey Chaucer
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29 / 102 George Eliot
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30 / 102 George Meredith
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31 / 102 Groucho Marx
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32 / 102 H. G. Wells
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33 / 102 Hammond Innes
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34 / 102 Han Suyin
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35 / 102 Haruki Murakami
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36 / 102 Henrik Ibsen
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37 / 102 Henry Miller
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38 / 102 Herman Hesse
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39 / 102 Isaac Asimov
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40 / 102 Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (4-Jan-1643 to 31-Mar-1727) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians, physicists, and most influential scientists of all time. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment.
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41 / 102 Italo Calvino
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42 / 102 J R R Tolkien
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43 / 102 J. P. Dunleavy
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44 / 102 Jay Bhattacharya
Indian-American professor of medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He directs Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. Much attacked by the public health kingpins after the Great Barrington Declaration in the early months of the Coronavirus pandemic. See Dr Bhattacharya Interview on YouTube.
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45 / 102 Jeff Noon
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46 / 102 Joan Didion
American popculture writer touching on counterculture, Hollywood, politics, social issues - a jack(ess) of many interests, mistress of none
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47 / 102 John Buchan
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48 / 102 John Christopher
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49 / 102 John Fante
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50 / 102 John Milton
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51 / 102 John P Ioannidis
Greek-American physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and clinical research. Ioannidis studies scientific research itself, meta-research primarily in clinical medicine and the social sciences. Ioannidis is a co-signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration and a proven expert in honest complex meta-analysis. Recently much attacked by plutocrats in charge of US public health grift, as in Scientific American article 'The Ioannidis Affair'.
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52 / 102 Jose Saramago
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53 / 102 Kurt Vonnegut
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54 / 102 Len Deighton
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55 / 102 Leo Tolstoy
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56 / 102 Lewis Carroll
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57 / 102 Lindsay Anderson
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58 / 102 Louis Aragon
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59 / 102 Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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60 / 102 Marina Tsvetaeva
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61 / 102 Mark Twain
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62 / 102 Miguel de Cervantes
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63 / 102 Mikhail Bulgakov
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64 / 102 Nagaru Tanigawa
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65 / 102 Nathanael West
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66 / 102 Nikolai Gogol
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67 / 102 Norman Mailer
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68 / 102 Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. He was educated at Oxford, later moving to the USA and, after a fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Sacks served as neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital's chronic-care facility in the Bronx, where he worked with a group of survivors of the 1920s sleeping sickness encephalitis lethargica, who had been unable to move on their own for decades. His treatment of those patients became the basis of his 1973 book Awakenings. His numerous other best-selling books were mostly collections of case studies of people, including himself, with neurological disorders. He also published hundreds of articles (both peer-reviewed scientific articles and articles for a general audience), not only about neurological disorders but also insightful book reviews and articles about the history of science, natural history, and nature. His writings have been featured in a wide range of media; The New York Times called him a "poet laureate of contemporary medicine," and "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century". Oliver Sacks's books include a wealth of narrative detail about his experiences with his patients and his own experiences, and how patients and he coped with their conditions, often illuminating how the normal brain deals with perception, memory, and individuality. He once stated that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe".
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69 / 102 Omar Khayyam
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70 / 102 Oscar Wilde
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71 / 102 P. G. Wodehouse
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72 / 102 Patrick O'Brien
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73 / 102 Patrick White
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74 / 102 Philip K Dick
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75 / 102 Philip Larkin
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76 / 102 Raymond Chandler
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77 / 102 Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (26-Mar-1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. An atheist, he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. With his book The Extended Phenotype (1982), he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
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78 / 102 Roald Dahl
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79 / 102 Rudyard Kipling
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80 / 102 Sergio Leone
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81 / 102 Spike Milligan
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82 / 102 Stanislaw Lem
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83 / 102 Stephane Mallarmé
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84 / 102 T. E. Lawrence
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85 / 102 Tennessee Williams
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86 / 102 Terry Eagleton
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87 / 102 Umberto Eco
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88 / 102 Ursula le Guin
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89 / 102 Vaclav Havel
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90 / 102 Victor Hugo
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91 / 102 Viktor Frankl
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92 / 102 Virgil
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93 / 102 Virginia Woolf
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94 / 102 Vladimir Nabokov
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95 / 102 W. B. Yeats
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96 / 102 Will Self
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97 / 102 William Blake
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98 / 102 William Faulkner
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99 / 102 William Gibson
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100 / 102 William Makepeace Thackeray
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101 / 102 Yevgeny Zamyatin
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102 / 102 Yusuf Hamied
Yusuf Khwaja Hamied (25-Jul-1936) is an Indian scientist, billionaire businessman based in Mumbai and London. Hamied graduated Cambridge University 1957, earned his PhD in 1960 under the tutelage of Nobel Laureate Alexander Todd, then moved to India to become chairman of Cipla, a generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935. Hamied is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the British Royal Academy. His career includes provision of generic drugs in defiance of oligopoly market abusing "Western" pharma, including ARV drugs saving millions of HIV+ lives from dying of AIDS.
