a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century

a French poet, dramatist and diplomat. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism

a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds

a Muslim Andalusian polymath and jurist.

an English chemist. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry and introduced the concept of combining power or valence.

a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.