a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass and achromatic telescope objective lenses, invented the spectroscope, and developed diffraction grating

a French chemist.

a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille

a German poet and dramatist. In German he mostly is called Graf (Count) Platen.

an American-born British author. He is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity.