The week's most popular people
Marvin Minsky
Cognitive scientist
Making the most useless machine
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
Feynman and QCD
William Simons
Learning to live with acne
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Mathematician
Family background and early education
Editor's choice
Ken Adam
Production designer
From friendly aliens to enemy aliens
Jean-Claude Carrière
Screenwriter
Money: the giant octopus
Alice Herz-Sommer
Pianist
'Women inspire great men'
Freeman Dyson
Physicist
Why I am an optimist
Featured channel: Art & Design
Paula Rego
Artist
Black-and-white drawings
Quentin Blake
Illustrator
Roald Dahl and working on The Twits
Carl Djerassi
Chemist
We donated the Picasso
