List of contributors to the Encyclopædia Britannica
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The Encyclopædia Britannica has a history of containing many articles written by notable expert contributors,[1][2] Among these contributors are many Nobel laureates,[3] such as Albert Einstein and Marie Curie; presidents of the United States John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton; and other notable figures.
Contributors
| Edition | Name | Description of author | Contributions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | William Smellie | Scottish printer, author and principal editor of the first edition of the Britannica[4] | Various[a] |
| 2nd | James Tytler | Scottish balloonist, radical, author, and editor of the second edition and part of the third edition[6][7] | Various,[b] notably:[7] |
| 3rd | |||
| John Barclay | Scottish anatomist and teacher[9] | "Physiology"[10] | |
| Thomas Blacklock | Blind Scottish poet and clergyman[11] | "Blind"[12] | |
| David Doig | Scottish philologist[13] | ||
| George Gleig | Scottish bishop and primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, editor of part of the third edition[16] | Various, notably:[16] | |
| Robert Heron | Scottish writer and polymath[17] | ||
| John Robison | Scottish natural philosopher[19] | Various,[18] notably:[20] | |
| Thomas Thomson | Scottish chemist[21] | "Sea"[22] | |
| 4th, 5th, 6th, suppl. | Thomas Robert Malthus | English demographer and political economist known for the Malthusian theory of population growth[23] | "Population"[24] |
| 11th | Peter Kropotkin | Russian anarcho-communist philosopher[25] | Various,[c] notably:[27] |
| 13th | Marie Curie | Polish scientist who made breakthroughs in physics and chemistry, earning two Nobel Prizes[28] | "Radium"[29] |
| Irène Joliot-Curie | Daughter of Marie and 1935 Nobel laureate in Chemistry[30] | ||
| W.E.B. Du Bois | African American sociologist and co-founder of the NAACP[31] | "Negro literature" in American literature[32] | |
| Albert Einstein | German-born physicist and 1921 Nobel laureate in Physics[33] | "Space-time"[34] | |
| Henry Ford | American automobile manufacturer and innovator of mass production who founded Ford Motor Company[35] | "Mass production"[35] | |
| Sigmund Freud | Neurologist who originated Psychoanalysis[36] | Psychoanalysis: Freudian School[36] | |
| Leon Trotsky | Russian revolutionary leader and statesman[37] | "Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov"[38] | |
| 14th | Lillian Gish | Prolific American silent film actress[39] | "A universal language" in Motion pictures[40] |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 | "Ellsworth, Oliver"[41] | |
| 15th | Jimmy Carter | President of the United States from 1977 to 1981[42] | "Camp David Accords"[43] |
| Online | Bill Clinton | President of the United States from 1993 to 2001[44] | "Dayton Accords"[45] |
| Desmond Tutu | South African archbishop and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate[46] | "Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa"[47] |