a French neoclassical sculptor famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.

an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He made major contributions to optics, classical mechanics and abstract algebra

an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins

a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and co-founder of modern cytology

a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce provocative images of those times.

a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement