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Adam Smith
1723 – 1790The Wealth of Nations founded economics as a discipline.
Edward Jenner
1749 – 1823Invented vaccination; smallpox is the only human disease ever eradicated.
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman founded feminist political theory.
Thomas Robert Malthus
1766 – 1834Population pressure as an economic law; the argument every food and climate debate revisits.
David Ricardo
1772 – 1823Comparative advantage and rent theory — still the core argument for trade.
Jane Austen
1775 – 1817Free indirect style and the social novel; still the most adapted author in English.
Michael Faraday
1791 – 1867A bookbinder's apprentice who gave humanity electricity on demand.
Mary Shelley
1797 – 1851Frankenstein invented science fiction and the ethics-of-creation debate.