Peter Medawar (1915–1987)

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1. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

2. Peter Medawar

   Author of Advice to a Young Scientist, The Limits of Science, The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists

3. Lewis Thomas

   Author of The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)

4. Ernst Mayr

   Author of The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

5. A. J. Ayer

   Author of The Problem of Knowledge, Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Wittgenstein

6. Richard Feynman

   Author of What Do You Care What Other People Think?, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

7. Edward O. Wilson

   Author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist

8. Martin Gardner

   Author of The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Great Essays in Science

9. Charles Darwin

   Author of On the Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms

10. Richard Dawkins

    Author of The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

11. Karl Popper

    Author of The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Unended Quest (Routledge Classics), Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach

12. Jacob Bronowski

    Author of Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel, Science and Human Values, The Common Sense of Science

13. Steven Weinberg

    Author of The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, Dreams of a Final Theory

14. E. Janet Browne

    Author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume I of a Biography, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place: Volume II of a Biography

15. Thomas S. Kuhn

    Author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Copernican Revolution

16. Francis Crick

    Author of What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery, Life Itself (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

17. John Maynard Smith

    Author of The Theory of Evolution (Canto), The Origins of Life

18. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

19. Albert Einstein

    Author of Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Ideas and Opinions

20. James Gleick

    Author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman