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Scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature. Notable research areas include the sense of self, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science for his book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid."
Cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. Advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
Austrian-British philosopher, academic, and social commentator. Rejects classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favor of empirical falsification. Introduced critical rationalism as a philosophy of criticism.
Known for Stigler's law of eponymy, which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.
Theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of superfluidity. Nobel Prize recipient for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.