an English poet, playwright, and novelist. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

a German chemist, physicist and philosopher known for achievements in electrochemistry and ultraviolet light

a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era

a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.

a Norwegian writer whose work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment.

a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and Catholic priest. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time