Who in the world has super taste, a feel for and way of picking subjects that, decades in the future, will seem prescient, as though they had a line on the future?
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Just a clarification: I mean people who are right over and over again. Not just that they founded a field, but rather that they were a key enabler in the early days of many, many fields. Eg, Minsky's proteges helped found perhaps a dozen or more distinct fields or subfields.
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To reiterate: lots of people are mentioning field founders. Which is great, but not the question. The question is: who helped enable new fields to emerge, over & over & over & over again. Eg, I can name a dozen fields or subfields for Minsky.
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John Tukey comes to mind.
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Great example!
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John Ioannidis. Established the foundations for recognizing the reproducibility crisis in the early 2000s. Established meta-research as a field. His students, found while unknown, are now leaders in evidence-based medicine. Applied neural networks in medicine in the 90s.
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When you are famous, talent comes to you and then they go on to do great things. The better question to ask: who wasn't so famous and still consistently ended up with students who went on to do great things?
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ah, I think "helped enable new fields to emerge" was not clean to me from the original post. This is a really interesting question.
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Somebody whom I think is gravely undervalued particularly for the different areas of activity: Fridtjof Nansen: "explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth he was a champion skier and ice skater"
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I don’t know if you are thinking about an industry like fashion - but Karl Lagerfeld was this for design & style.
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I mean obviously Nikola Tesla should be on this list. Benjamin Franklin. Leonardo da Vinci. Claude Shannon.
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Alan Turing.
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