an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd.

a French artist, as a printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings, including 241 illustrating the Bible.

an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.

a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifuge

an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.