an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England, recognized as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."

an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".

a Russian writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.

an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian. He is remembered today mainly for what is called Prout's hypothesis.

a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.

an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950.