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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Michio Kaku (born 1947)
theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurist, radio personality, physicist, television personality
- Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
inventor, explorer, physicist
- King's College London, Richard Huish College, Taunton
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
philosopher, anthropologist, physicist, librarian, pedagogue, mathematician, philosopher of law
- University of Kƶnigsberg, Collegium Fridericianum
RenƩ Descartes (1596-1650)
philosopher, mathematician, musicologist, physicist, astronomer, music theorist, correspondent, mechanical automaton engineer, military personnel
- collĆØge Henri-IV de La FlĆØche, Leiden University
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
mathematician, jurist, physicist, philosopher, diplomat, historian, librarian, musicologist, translator, music theorist, diplomatician, poet, engineer, zoologist, archivist, biologist, geologist, policy advisor, philosopher of law, logician
- University of Altdorf, Leipzig University