a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen

one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century.

a Russian polymath, scientist and writer. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions.

a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.

a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern Breakthrough.

a German biochemist. He initially rejected the Nobel Prize in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II