Svante Arrhenius was a Nobel Prize winning scientist known for his revolutionary theories in various fields, including physics, chemistry and astronomy.

• Scientist, Physicist, Academic, Chemist
  (1859–1927)

Economist F.A. Hayek was noted for his criticisms of the Keynesian welfare state and of totalitarian socialism. In 1974 he shared the Nobel Prize for Economics.

• Scholar, Journalist, Economist, Educator
  (1899–1992)

Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and other explosives. He used his enormous fortune from 355 patents to institute the Nobel Prizes.

• Engineer, Scientist, Inventor, Chemist, Business Leader
  (1833–1896)

Economist Gary Becker won a Nobel Prize, National Medal of Science and the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his exploration of sociology and economics.

• Economist
  (1930–)

U.S. Economist Thomas Schelling was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2005 for enhancing our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.

• Journalist, Academic, Economist
  (1921–)

Economist Edward C. Prescott won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics for his study of central bank policy and business cycles.

• Economist
  (1940–)

Paul Samuelson used mathematics to formulate influential economic theories and, in 1970, became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

• Academic, Economist
  (1915–2009)