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When Prospect magazine listed Britain's leading public intellectuals in 2004
and invited readers' votes, it was Richard Dawkins
who emerged as No 1. Nine years on, the biologist, author and campaigner
has bettered that by topping its "world thinkers"
rankings, beating four Nobel prize winners (and another contender regarded
as certain to receive one soon) in a poll based on
65 names chosen by a largely US- and UK-based expert panel.
Joining him in the top 10 are the psychologists Steven Pinker (3) and Daniel
Kahneman (10), the economists Paul Krugman
(5) and Amartya Sen (7) and the philosopher Slavoj Žižek (6), who all, like
him, figured in the magazine's first list of world-class
thinkers in 2005.
A late run by the octogenarian British physicist Peter Higgs (8) secured him a
place in an elite squad containing three other
scientists, while the remaining slots are taken by academics turned politicians
from the Middle East: Afghanistan's Ashraf
Ghani (2), an economist who served as finance minister after the US-led
invasion; Iraq's Ali Allawi (4), another ex-minister
and author of The Occupation of Iraq and The Crisis of Islamic Civilization;
and Egypt's Mohamed ElBaradei (9), prominent in t
he Arab Spring and now in opposition to Mohamed Morsi.
Evolutionary biologist beats four Nobel prize winners for his global
influence and significance on the year's biggest questions
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