an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography

a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain,

one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style

a chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

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

a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.