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The uncertainty principle.

Falsifiability became science's demarcation criterion.

Independent People gave a small nation a world literature.

Computer architecture, game theory, quantum foundations.

Imperfect competition and a lifelong challenge to orthodox capital theory.

Existentialism's public face; declined the Nobel Prize in 1964.

Crowds and Power analysed mass psychology and dictatorship.

Logotherapy: meaning as the primary human drive, tested in the camps.

Incompleteness theorems set permanent limits on formal systems.

The Origins of Totalitarianism remains the reference work on how republics fail.

The Second Sex founded modern feminist philosophy.

Discovered nerve growth factor in a bedroom lab under fascist persecution.

Invented management as a discipline and named the knowledge worker.

Wrote on attention, affliction and rootedness while working the factory floor.

Solved the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin by X-ray.

Built the first programmable digital computer, the Z3, in 1941.

The Captive Mind dissected intellectual submission to totalitarianism.

Linked dietary fibre to Western disease patterns after describing Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda.

Defined what a computer is, then was destroyed by the country he saved.

Founded deep ecology and the case for nature's intrinsic worth.

The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus; absurdism as an ethic.

Explained the nerve impulse in mathematical terms.

Co-described the double helix and the central dogma of molecular biology.

The Gulag Archipelago broke the Soviet system's moral standing.

Chemist whose Auschwitz testimony is the standard of moral witness.

The Sovereignty of Good returned attention and love to moral philosophy.

Photographed the shape of the molecule that makes us.

Blindness and the parable of institutional collapse.

Founded Five Element acupuncture and the colleges that carried it across the English-speaking world.

Psychiatrist whose Wretched of the Earth remains the core text of decolonisation.

Predicted the boson that gives particles mass, found 48 years later.

Systematised classical homeopathy teaching; Right Livelihood laureate in 1996.

Hawking radiation and A Brief History of Time.

His cube became a global object lesson in group theory.

The Foundations of Chinese Medicine became the standard Western textbook of the field.

Built a new documentary genre from thousands of interviews.

Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.

Demoted, defunded, and right: her mRNA work produced the COVID vaccines.

Flights and The Books of Jacob; constellation-form fiction.

The Entrepreneurial State reframed public investment as the source of major innovation.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century put wealth inequality data at the centre of policy.

Randomised trials made development aid an experimental science.