Founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher,
codebreaker, and visionary.
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
http://zakuski.utsa.edu/~gokhman/ecz/
Known, amongst other things, for developing second-order cybernetics which focus on self-referential systems and the importance of eigenbehaviors for the explanation of complex phenomena.
http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/HvF.htm
Awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1977 for his contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.
http://pchen.ccer.edu.cn/homepage/Biography%20%20of%20Prof_%20Ilya%20Prigogine.htm
International home page of James Lovelock, the founding historical and cultural leader of environmentalism for environmentalists around the world.
http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/index.htm
Invented random-access magnetic-core memory during the first wave of modern digital computers, also pioneered the field of system dynamics.
http://sysdyn.clexchange.org/people/jay-forrester.html
Mathematician and polymath who made important contributions in quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, computer science, economics and many other mathematical fields. Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the modern digital computer and the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html
Poincaré made many original fundamental contributions to theoretical and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. Also, he became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern chaos theory.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Poincare.html
Richardson attempted to apply his mathematical skills in the service of his pacifist principles, in particular in understanding the roots of international conflict. As he had done with weather, he analyzed war using differential equations.
http://maths.paisley.ac.uk/LfR/home.htm
Mathematician and chaos theorist since 1958, Professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley, Columbia, Princeton, and UC Santa Cruz, visiting Holland, Italy, France, Spain, and Japan, Founding director of the Visual Math Institute in Santa Cruz, Calif.
http://www.ralph-abraham.org/
Known for his development of catastrophe theory, a mathematical treatment of continuous action producing a discontinuous result.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thom.html
The Official Home Page of biologist Rupert Sheldrake.
http://www.sheldrake.org/
Stuart Alan Kauffman is a complex systems researcher, and is most widely known for his promotion of self-organization as a factor that might be very as important in producing the complexity of biological systems and organisms.
http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/kauffman/
A visionary cultural historian, social critic, novelist, yogi, and poet.
http://www.williamirwinthompson.nstemp.com/
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