L Ron Hubbard has recognized numerous people whose own work in the fields of spirituality, philosophy and science made Dianetics and Scientology possible. In particular, he acknowledged the following:
Anaxagoras
Aristotle
Buckminster Fuller
Buddha
Charcot
Confucius
Count Alfred Korzybski
Euclid
Francis Bacon
Herbert Spencer
Isaac Newton
James Clerk Maxwell
Jesus of Nazareth
Lao Tze
Lucretius
Michael Faraday
Mohammed
Plato
Rene Descartes
Roger Bacon
Sigmund Freud
Socrates
Thomas Jefferson
Cmdr Thompson (MC) USN
Thomas Paine
Voltaire
Will Durant
William James
William A. White
van Leeuwenhoek
His instructors in atomic and molecular science, mathematics and the humanities at George Washington University and at Princeton