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Jimmy Wales
ounder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
D.A. Wallach
Recording Artist; Songwriter; Artist in Residence, Spotify
Felix Warneken
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Henry Warwick
artist, composer, and scientist
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Artist
Martin Wattenberg
Group Manager and researcher at IBM's Visual Communication Lab
Adam Waytz
Psychologist; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University; Author, The Power of Human
Russell Weinberger
Associate Publisher, EDGE
Mike Weiner
CEO of Biophan Technologies, Inc.
Eric R. Weinstein
Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel Capital
Bret Weinstein
Theoretical Evolutionary Biologist
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Artist; Curator; Architectural Designer (The Bird's Nest); Cultural And Social Commentator; Activist
Albert Wenger
Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
Richard Wentworth
Artist, Curator
Margaret Wertheim
science writer and commentator
Geoffrey West
Theoretical Physcicist; Shannan Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute; Author, Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Thalia Wheatley
Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Tim White
Paleoanthropologist; Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Harvey Whitehouse
Anthropologist; University Professor; Director, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford; Author, Arguments and Icons
Linda Wilbrecht
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Frank Wilczek
Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; Author, Fundamentals
Jason Wilkes
Graduate student in Psychology, UC Santa Barbara; Author, Burn Math Class
Evan Williams
CEO, Medium
George C. Williams
was an evolutionary biologist; professor emeritus of ecology
Donald I. Williamson
biologist at the Port Erin Marine Station of the University of Liverpool (UK); Author, The Origins of Larvae
Delta Willis
Paleontologist; Author, Hominid Gang
Ian Wilmut
Chair of Reproductive Biology, Director Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Author, After Dolly
Timothy D. Wilson
Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia; Co-author, Social Psychology; Author, Strangers to Ourselves; Redirect
David Sloan Wilson
SUNY distinguished professor of biology and anthropology, Binghamton University; Editor-in-Chief of Evolution: This View of Life
E. O. Wilson
Biologist, Harvard University; author, The Social Conquest of Earth and The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
David Winer
The Lover
Dave Winer
Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News Weblog
Ellen Winner
Psychologist, Boston College; Author, How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration
Jason Wishnow
Film Director; Director of Film and Video at TED, 2006-2012
Alexander Wissner-Gross
Scientist; Inventor; Entrepreneur; Investor
Eva Wisten
Journalist
Peter Woit
Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not Even Wrong
Anne Wojcicki
Co-founder of 23andMe, a biotech company based on the concept of genetic mapping
Nathan Wolfe
Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor of Human Biology, Stanford University; Director, The Global Viral Forecasting; author, The Viral Storm
Michael Wolff
Author, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House; Columnist and contributor, USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, British GQ
Stephen Wolfram
Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research; Author, A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics
Lewis Wolpert
Professor of Biology
Milford H. Wolpoff
Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan; Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology
Vanessa Woods
Journalist; Author, Bonobo Handshake, Co-Author, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think
Steve Wozniak
Co-Founder, Apple Computer
Richard Wrangham
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Curator of Primate Behavioral Biology at Harvard University; Author, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Faculty Member, Minnesota Population Center
Richard Saul Wurman
Founder, TED Conference; EG Conference; TEDMED Conferences; Architect, Cartographer; Author, Information Architects
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