The intellectual colossus of the medieval Jewish world, whose codification of Jewish law and synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Torah reshaped both rabbinic tradition and Western philosophy.

10th-century rabbi

The premier philosopher of the radical Enlightenment, whose metaphysics of nature and pioneer defense of secular democracy laid the foundations of modern thought.

Biblical matriarch

The medical visionary who developed the first effective inactivated polio vaccine, liberating generations of children worldwide from paralysis and refusing to patent the formula for profit.