Paul Krugman: Nobel laureate, psychohistorian.
From http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/who-are-you-calling-dense/, posted yesterday:
"Asimov, and specifically the Foundation trilogy, was my great inspiration; I became an economist because I wanted to be a psychohistorian, saving civilization through the mathematics of human behavior."
"Asimov, and specifically the Foundation trilogy, was my great inspiration; I became an economist because I wanted to be a psychohistorian, saving civilization through the mathematics of human behavior."