an Italian chemist. He is famous for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860

a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein

an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods

an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment

a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders,

an English self-taught mathematician and physicist who independently developed vector calculus among many achievements