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Desmond Morris (born 1928)
ethnologist, painter, ethologist, primatologist, zoologist, television presenter, illustrator, sociobiologist
- University of Oxford, University of Birmingham
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopƩdistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
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
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
journalist, social critic, playwright, editor, botanist
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
marine biologist, environmentalist, zoologist, essayist, conservationist, whistleblower
- Chatham University, Johns Hopkins University
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
biochemist, autobiographer, journalist
- Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, historian, marine biologist, adventurer, film director, sailor, ethnographer, world traveler
- University of Oslo