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by presidentender 5672 days ago
Noam Chomsky, with his two-ish fields, springs to mind. Asimov and Bertrand Russel might qualify.

It seems, though, that those sparse matrices are largely populated by creative efforts; we see many professors of hard science who are also philosophers, historians or writers, but we seem to have lost the biologist, engineer and composer of da Vinci's ilk.