a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist generally referred to as the Father of Mineralogy.

a German poet and playwright. With his eloquent sonnets, he is considered one of the most important Baroque poets of the Germanosphere

a Soviet mathematician who contributed to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic and many other fields

a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries and politician.

an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751

a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union.