a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. Today, he is remembered mostly as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699.

a Norwegian mathematician and chemist. Guldberg is best known as a pioneer in physical chemistry.

a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered.

a German composer and performer, the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach

a Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, and was a founder of the field of tropical medicine.

a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.