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Per Bak

self-organized criticality.

Danish physicist who introduced self-organized criticality via the sandpile model, influencing complexity science across multiple disciplines.

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social physics; reality-mining feedback systems.
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Stella software; systems thinking pedagogy.
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Benoit Mandelbrot
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