Meanings of intellectual heavyweights in English

Besides, who could today measure up to those three intellectual heavyweights?

Callie and Teddy were hardly what you'd call intellectual heavyweights, but they weren't dimwitted.

Or for the intellectual heavyweights, perhaps an in-depth take on climate science with the RINGOs?

Here are the paranoia, the blind alleys of research, the rivalry, and many collisions of intellectual heavyweights.

Perhaps, however, the experience of 1971 was enough to make the prize organisers think twice about including so many free-thinking intellectual heavyweights again.

Zygmunt Bauman, who died in January at the age of 91, was one of the last intellectual heavyweights of the 20th century.