are:

Edward Witten
Steven Pinker
Eric Lander
Korean Cloners
Paul Ridker
Hernando de Soto
Jeff Sachs
Linus Torvalds
Niall Ferguson
Bernard Lewis
Tariq Ramadan
Jürgen Habermas
Samantha Power
Sandra Day O'Connor
Jill Tarter
Julie Gerberding
Joschka Fischer
Bjorn Lomborg
Jong-Wook Lee
Louise Arbour

How many do you know? Any clue what their major contributions have been?

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