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(00:00) Introduction (02:27) Petrie-Flom Center Open House – Health Law, Biotechnology, and the Futu
Daniel A. Greenberg (28 September 1934 – 2 December 2021), was one of the founders of the Sudbury Va
James Thomas Farrell (February 27, 1904 – August 22, 1979) was an American novelist, short-story wri
Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scienti
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, k
Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian-American neuroscientist and psychobiol
Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. (The Roy
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoreti
John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his inventi
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He c
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known fo
Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture ca
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British math
Michael Polanyi (11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made import
Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi (29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psycho
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian–American writer. Fo
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who fe
Karl John Friston (born 12 July 1959) is a British neuroscientist and theoretician at University Col
