7. Alison Gopnik, Professor, Philosopher, Psychologist

<p>Alison Gopnik is known for her work in the areas of&nbsp;cognitive&nbsp;and&nbsp;language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a&nbsp;theory of mind, and causal learning.</p> <p>She has an incredible childhood reading environment. By the time she was 16 years old, she had read a bunch of Jane Austen, Charles Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare and other great authors in literature.</p> <p><br></p>