a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate. He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, "splitting the atom"

a French mathematician and logician

a British philosopher, logician, and social critic

a German mathematician who created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in mathematical physics and the theory of relativity

an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science.