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

a French mathematician who did research concerning number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra

an Austrian scientist and inventor, who separated didymium into the elements neodymium and praseodymium in 1885.

a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).

a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio

an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature