Research Influences

“It is the wisdom, ignorance, imagination, lack of imagination, successes and failures of others throughout history that give us the ability to understand the past and present to predetermine the future.” ~ Adam Limle

A partial list of individuals I continue to enjoy researching and studying.

Order: Date of Birth

Adam & Eve (3760 BCE) First Man, Woman
Homer (750 BC) Author, Poet
Laozi aka Lao Tzu (601 – 531) Philosopher, Writer
Pythagoras of Samos (570 – 495 BC) Philosopher
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha (563/480 – 483/400 BC) Monk, Teacher, Buddhism
Confucius (551 – 479 BC) Teacher, Editor, Politician, Philosopher
Sun Tzu (544 – 496 BC) Military General, Military Strategist, Writer, Philosopher
Heraclitus of Ephesus (535 - 475 BC) Philosopher
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 – 430 BC) Patrician, Statesman, Dictator, Military Leader
Parmenides of Elea (515 – 450 BC) Philosopher
Socrates (470 – 399 BC) Philosopher, First Moral Philosopher
Leucippus (5th Century BC) Philosopher, Theory of Atomism
Democritus (460 – 370 BC) Philosopher, Atomic Theory
Xenophon of Athens (430 – 354 BC) Philosopher, Historian, Soldier, Mercenary
Plato (423 – 348 BC) Philosopher
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) Philosopher, Scientist
Alexander III of Macedon (356 – 323 BC) King
Xun “Xunzi” Kuang (314 – 217 BC) Philosopher
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (280 – 203 BC) Statesman, Military General, Dictator, Strategist
Hannibal Barca (247 – 183 BC) Military Leader
Marcus Licinius Crassus (112- 53 BC) Military Leader, Politician, Real Estate, Mining
Gaius Julius Caesar (100 – 44 BC) Politician, Military General, Historian
Gaius Octavius Thurinus “Augustus” (63 BC – 14 AD) Emperor, Military Leader
Jesus (4 BC – 33) Jewish Preacher, Religious Leader
Judas Iscariot (Unknown – 33) Disciple, Betrayed Jesus
Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180) Emperor, Philosopher
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430) Theologian, Philosopher
Muhammad (570 – 632) Founder of Islam
Al-Ghazali (1058 – 1111) Philosophers, Theologians, Jurists, Mystic
Genghis “Temüjin” Khan (1162 – 1227) Military Leader, Silk Road, Land
Subutai (1175 – 1248) General, Military Strategist
Mansa Musa I (1280 – 1337) Salt, Gold, Mining, Military Leader
Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici (1389 – 1464) Banking, Politician
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Universal Genius
Jakob Fugger (1459 – 1525) Banking, Copper, Mining
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) Diplomat, Politician, Historian, Philosopher, Writer
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) Mathematician, Astronomer
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) Astronomer, Physicist, Engineer, Polymath
Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630) German Astronomer, Mathematician, Astrologer
Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) Philosopher
René Descartes (1596 – 1650) Philosopher, Mathematician, Scientist
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619 – 1683) French Politician
Shivaji Bhonsle (1627 – 1680) Warrior King
Samuel Wolf Oppenheimer (1630 – 1703) Banking, Diplomat
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) Philosopher
John Locke (1632 – 1704) Philosopher, Physician, Economist
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726) Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Theologian, Philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716) Polymath, Philosopher
Simon Wolf Oppenheimer (1665 – 1726)Banking
Jacob Simon Wolf Oppenheimer (Unknown – 1760)Banking
George Berkeley (1685 – 1753) Philosopher
Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) Judge, Intellectual, Political Philosopher
Voltaire – François-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1178) Writer, Historian, Philosopher
Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783) Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Logician, Engineer
David Hume (1711 – 1776) Philosopher, Historian, Economist, Writer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) Philosopher, Political Philosopher, Alchemist, Writer
Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) Economist, Philosopher, Author
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach (1723 – 1789) Author, Philosopher, Encyclopedist
George Washington (1732 – 1799) A Founding Father of United States, President, Commander-in-Chief Army
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736 – 1806) Military Engineer, Physicist
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) A Founding Father of United States, President, Politician, Lawyer, Author
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) Chemist
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744 – 1812) Banking
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 – 1827) Engineer, Mathematician, Statistician, Physicist, Astronomer
John Jacob Astor (1763 – 1848) Fur, Merchant, Real Estate, Investor
John Dalton (1766 – 1844) Chemist, Physicist, Meteorologist
Baron Amschel Mayer von Rothschild (1773 – 1855) Banking
Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774 – 1855) Banking
Nathan Mayer Freiherr von Rothschild (1777 – 1836) Banking
Carl Von Clausewitz (1780 – 1831) Military Leader, Military Theorist
Carl Mayer Freiherr von Rothschild (1788 – 1855) Banking
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) Philosopher
Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867) Scientist
James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (1792 – 1868) Banking
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 – 1877) Railroads, Shipping
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (1801 – 1850) Economist
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805 – 1865) Mathematician
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) President, Politician, Lawyer
Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) Writer, Philosopher, Abolitionist, Naturalist, Critic, Surveyor, Historian
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) Philosopher, Economist, Historian, Sociologist, Political Theorist, Journalist, Socialist
Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895) Philosopher, Communist, Social Scientist, Journalist, Businessman
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881) Novelist, Writer, Essayist, Journalist, Philosopher
Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877) Journalist, Businessman, Essayist,
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) Writer
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) Scientist, Mathematical Physics
Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) Carnegie Steel Company, U.S. Steel, Mining
Jason “Jay” Gould (1836 – 1892) Railroad Developer, Speculator
John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837 – 1913) Banking, Finance, Industrial Consolidation
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1903) Scientist: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (1839 – 1937) Oil, Industrialist
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844 – 1906) Physicist, Philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) Philosopher, Cultural Critic, Composer, Poet, Philologist
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 – 1923) Mechanical Engineer, Physicist
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931) Inventor, Businessman
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (1848 – 1923) Engineer, Sociologist, Economist, Political Scientist, Philosopher
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849 – 1936) Physiologist
Barney Barnato (1851 – 1897) Diamond, Gold Mining
Cecil John Rhodes PC (1853 – 1902) Diamond, Gold Mining
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Scientific Philosopher
Napoleon Bonaparte (1856 – 1879) Statesman, Military Leader
Andrey Andreyevich Markov (1856 – 1922) Mathematician
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Playwright, Critic, Polemicist, Political Activist
Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) Inventor, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer
Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856 – 1940) Physicist
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858 – 1947) Theoretical Physicist
Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) Ford Motor Company, Assembly Line, Mass Production
Hermann Minkowski (1864 – 1909) Mathematician
Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867 – 1934) Physicist, Chemist
Irving Fisher (1867 – 1947) Economist, Statistician, Inventor
Paul Moritz Warburg (1868 – 1932) Investment Banker
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (1868 – 1951) Theoretical Physicist
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Lawyer, Politician, Activist
Ernest Rutherford (1871 – 1937) Physicist
Karl Schwarzschild (1873 – 1916) Physicist, Astronomer
John Broadus Watson (1878 – 1958) Psychologist
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Theoretical Physicist
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (1880 – 1957) Diamond, Gold, Mining
Ludwig von Mises (1881 – 1973) Theoretical Economist
John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946) Economist
Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885 – 1962) Physicist
Mir Osman Ali Khan Siddiqi, Asaf Jah VII (1886 – 1967) Diamonds, Banking
Isabel Paterson (1886 – 1961) Journalist, Novelist, Political Philosopher
Erwin Schrödinger (1887 – 4 January 1961) Physicist
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) Politician, Demagogue, Dictator, Revolutionary
Michael Polanyi (1891 – 1976) Polymath, Physical Chemistry, Economics, Philosophy
Gregory Breit (1899 – 1981) Physicist
Satyendra Nath Bose (1894 – 1974) Physicist
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986) Philosopher, Speaker, Writer
Friedrich Hayek (1899 – 1992) Economist, Philosopher, Psychology, Political Science, Law
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900 – 1958) Theoretical Physicist
Enrico Fermi (1901 – 1954) Physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901 – 1976) Theoretical Physicist
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902 – 1984) Theoretical Physicist
Oskar Morgenstern (1902 – 1977) Economist
Jan Tinbergen (1903 – 1994) Economist
John von Neumann (1903 – 1957) Mathematician, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Polymath
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967) Theoretical Physicist
Burrhus Skinner (1904 – 1990) Psychologist, Behaviorist, Author, Inventor, Social Philosopher
Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982) Writer, Philosopher
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (1908 – 2000) Diamond, Mining
Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) Writer, Intellectual, Philosopher, Activist, Social Theorist
Hendrik Casimir (1909 – 2000) Physicist
John Archibald Wheeler (1911 – 2008) Theoretical Physicist
Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) Economist
Alan Turing (1912 – 1954) Mathematician, Computer Scientist, Logician, Cryptanalyst, Philosopher, Theoretical Biologist
Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915 – 2009) Economist
Edward Norton Lorenz (1917 – 2008) Mathematician, Meteorologist, Pioneer of Chaos Theory
Richard Phillips Feynman (1918 – 1988) Theoretical Physicist
Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) Political Leader, Activist, Lawyer
Samuel Moore Walton (1918 – 1992) American Businessman, Entrepreneur, Mass Retail
Lawrence Robert Klein (1920 – 2013) Economist, Econometrics
Kenneth Joseph “Ken” Arrow (1921 – 2017) Economist, Mathematician, Writer, Political Theorist
John Bordley Rawls (1921 – 2002) Political Philosopher
Freeman John Dyson (1923 – Present) Theoretical Physicist, Mathematician
Lloyd Stowell Shapley (1923 – 2016) Mathematician, Economist
Fidel Castro (1926 – 2016) Communist, Politician, Revolutionary, President of Cuba
John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928 – 2015) Mathematician
Avram Noam Chomsky (1928 – Present) Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Historian, Social Critic, Political Activist
Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (1928 – 2016) Astronomer
Peter Ware Higgs (1929 – Present) Theoretical Physicist
Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) Minister, Activist
Murray Gell-Mann (1929 – Present) Physicist
Gary Stanley Becker (1930 – 2014) Economist, Sociologist
Warren Buffett (1930 – Present) Investor
George Soros (1930 – Present) Investor, Philanthropist
Amartya Kumar Sen (1933 – Present) Economist, Philosopher
Steven Weinberg (1933 – Present) Theoretical Physicist
Daniel Kahneman (1934 – Present) Psychologist, Economist
Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. (1937 – Present) Economist
Robert Nozick (1938 – 2002) Philosopher
Muhammad Yunus (1940 – Present) Entrepreneur, Banker, Economist, Civil Society Leader
Lance Jerome Taylor (1940 – Present) Economist
Stephen William Hawking (1942 – 2018) Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author, Researcher
Rüdiger “Rudi” Dornbusch (1942 – 2002) Economist
Charles Henry Bennett (1943 – Present) Physicist, Information Theorist
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (1943 – Present) Economist, Public Policy Analysis, Professor
Thomas Warren Campbell (1944 – Present) Physicist, Lecturer, Author
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (1944 – Present) Economist
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (1944 – Present) Technology, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
James Joseph Heckman (1944 – Present) Economist, Professor of Economics
Nicholas F. Oppenheimer (1945 – Present0) Diamond, Mining
Alan Harvey Guth (1947 – Present) Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist
Oliver Simon D’Arcy Hart (1948 – Present) Economist
Kurzweil, Raymond (1948 – Present) Inventor, Futurist
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (1949 – 1993) Drug Lord, Narcoterrorist
Bengt Robert Holmström (1949 – Present) Economist
Edward Witten (1951 – Present) Theoretical Physicist, Mathematical Physics
Vladimir Putin (1952 – Present) Politician, Intelligence Officer, President of Russia
Paul Robin Krugman (1953 – Present) Economist
William Gates III (1955 – Present) Technology, Entrepreneur, Investor, Author, Philanthropist, Humanitarian
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (1957 – Present) Business Magnate, Entrepreneur, Innovator
Peter Williston Shor (1959 – Present) Mathematician
Jordan Bernt Peterson (1962 – Present) Clinical Psychologist
Jack Ma Yun (1964 – Present) Chinese Business Magnate, Investor, Philanthropist
Jeffrey Bezos (1964 – Present) Technology, Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist
Samuel Benjamin Harris (1967 – Present) Occupation; Author, Philosopher, Neuroscientist
David Hanson Jr. (1969 – Present) Roboticist
Elon Musk (1971 – Present) Technology, Entrepreneur, Investor, Engineer
Thomas Piketty (1971 – Present) Economist
Sergey Brin (1973 – Present) Computer Scientist, Internet Entrepreneur
Lawrence Page (1973 – Present) Computer Scientist, Internet Entrepreneur
Mark Zuckerberg (1984 – Present) Technology Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

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