an English journalist and writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date

a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot.

a German-Austrian ethologist. His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance.

a German scientist, engineer, and businessman, inventor of processes which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator

a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science

a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time