a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and lay Catholic who invented analytic geometry

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.

an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation.

an English novelist, playwright, journalist

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

an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.