a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine.

a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism

a French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium.

a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history,

a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology.

a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for proving the prime number theorem. The king of Belgium ennobled him with the title of baron.