Carl Djerassi, Cosma Shalizi, Tyler Cowen, Richard Feynman, John von Neumann. Djerassi was a Stanford chemist and has multiple works of fiction published, Shalizi is a physicist/statistician/sociologist, Cowen is an economist/public intellectual, neither Feynman nor Vonneumann need introduction.

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