9 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Danish physiologist who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the mechanism regulating the motor control of capillaries — demonstrating that the body recruits additional capillaries during exercise rather than simply increasing flow through existing ones.
Israeli-American psychologist — Nobel Prize in Economics 2002 — author of Thinking, Fast and Slow — co-creator with Amos Tversky of prospect theory — the most influential psychologist in the history of economics.
American novelist and journalist — Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 — author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea — who created the most influential prose style in 20th-century American fiction.
German-Swiss novelist and poet — Nobel Prize in Literature 1946 — author of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and The Glass Bead Game — whose novels of spiritual seeking and self-discovery became central texts of the 1960s counterculture.
American economist — Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) with George Akerlof and Joseph Stiglitz — for his work on markets with asymmetric information — former Dean of Stanford Business School — author of The Next Convergence.
Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella — about old Cuban fisherman Santiago's epic three-day struggle with a great marlin in the Gulf Stream — which won him the Pulitzer Prize (1953) and contributed to his Nobel Prize (1954).
American behavioral economist — University of Chicago Booth School — Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2017 — who built the behavioral economics research program on Kahneman and Tversky's foundations and co-created nudge theory.
Polish-American Nobel Prize chemist (1981) at Cornell who also writes poetry and essays about the intersection of science and the humanities — exploring the aesthetic dimensions of chemistry and the humanistic dimensions of scientific practice.
Swedish poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature (2011) — and who worked as a psychologist at a rehabilitation institution — whose spare, imagistic poems are among the most widely translated in world literature and whose imagery has strong affinities with Jungian depth psychology.