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who are famous people who excelled in more than one discipline? e.g. Nabokov was an accomplished novelist and also a published scientist with entomology papers about butterflies
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Leonardo da Vinci. Galileo Galilei. Benjamin Franklin. I suppose generally anyone regarded as a Renaissance Man or polymath.
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Polymaths are good examples but their areas tend to be so broad they mostly are true generalists. What I am searching for are people with 2-3 specific talents that together created something new and interesting at the intersection.
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Steve Jobs used to say he was at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. In his words: “Technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”
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