It would be impossible to do justice in a short space to the thousands of eminent experts, scholars, and leaders who contribute to Britannica products today, much less the many thousands more whose work has appeared in Britannica products since the company’s founding in 1768. That list would include more than a hundred Nobel laureates, four presidents of the United States, countless Pulitzer Prize winners and others of international renown.
In this necessarily brief sampling, let us mention just a few prominent people who have written in their fields of expertise:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize
Bill Clinton
Former U.S. president
Simon Baron Cohen of Cambridge University
Noted autism expert
Jody Williams
Nobel laureate and activist against landmines
Joseph Ellis
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner
Jimmy Carter
Former U.S. President
Betty Boyd Caroli
Historian and biographer of U.S. first ladies
Gunther Schuller
Noted musician and jazz historian
Tony Hawk
Champion skateboarder
Steven Chiu
U.S. secretary of energy and Nobel laureate in physics
Lee Iacocca
Former Chrysler chairman
Sean Wilentz
Columbia University historian
Christina Romer
Economist and former head of the president’s council of economic advisors
Andrew Soltis
Chess grandmaster and writer
Francisco Ayala
Eminent evolutionary biologist
Past contributors included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie, Leon Trotsky, Harry Houdini, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and many, many others.