a British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power

a French chemist and one of the discoverers of bromine.

a playwright and writer of the Russian Enlightenment, one of the founders of literary comedy in Russia.

a Swedish oceanographer. He became committed to oceanography while studying physics at the University of Uppsala and, in particular, on hearing Vilhelm Bjerknes lecture on fluid dynamics.

an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death.

a Danish physical chemist, who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Martin Lowry.