a French chemist and one of the discoverers of bromine.

a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics born in Erlangen. In 1820 he built the first sensitive galvanometer, naming it after Luigi Galvani.

a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works

a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works; compared to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests

an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays

one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism.