an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.

a German writer and poet from Munich.

a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium.

an English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy".

a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion

a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896).