It is true that the Brothers produced Ayman al-Zawahiri, now Osama bin Laden's number two and chief ideologue; the writings of Sayyid Qutb, the Brothers' leading thinker in the 1950s and 1960s, are certainly intolerant and hostile to the West.
Importantly, early on in Latin America Bunge played the role of a much needed exemplar, a leading thinker who in the 1960s became a "possibility proof" that philosophers working in the sub-continent could, despite the often bizarre difficulties academics face, stand up and join the philosophical conversation at the highest levels.
He was a force behind the government's controversial decision to nationalize Northern Rock, the failing mortgage bank, in 2008 and was a leading thinker behind the government's plan late last year to inject capital into banks.
St. Bonaventure, minister-general of the Franciscans from 1257 to 1274 and a leading thinker of the 13th century, wrote: As it stood above him, he saw that it was a man and yet a Seraph with six wings; his arms were extended and his feet conjoined, and his body was fixed to a cross.
However, he worked at MIT and Princeton's mathematics department, and is today recognised as a leading thinker on game theory, one of the principles the U.S. government used in their strategy to deal with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Archives|Paid Notice: Deaths HOGAN, WILLIAM E. Paid Notice: Deaths HOGAN, WILLIAM E. HOGAN-William E. New York University Law School professor of law emeritus and a leading thinker in the field of contracts and commercial law, died on July 31 in Montreal, Canada.
Next week's Techonomy conference in Tucson, Ariz., will feature Ray Kurzweil, a leading thinker, inventor, and futurist known for his track record of accurate predictions.
But the nation's leading thinker and academic, Professor Tom Devine, disagreed.
"Tools merely offer the potential for collaboration," argues Evan Rosen, a leading thinker in this field.
This established Darwin as the leading thinker on natural selection and evolution as well as one of its co-discoverers.
Soloveitchik became known as the leading thinker of modern Orthodox Judaism.
