an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England

a German bacteriologist and hygienist, developed a complement fixation test for the diagnosis of syphilis in 1906, just one year after the causative organism had been identified

an Italian anatomist, generally regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students during his 56 years as Professor of Anatomy at the U of Padua.

a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.

a Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms gene, phenotype and genotype, and for his 1903 "pure line" experiments in genetics.

an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s