a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines

a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

a Baltic German physicist, who, in 1822, observed a relationship between heat and magnetism. Later, in 1823, Ørsted called this phenomenon thermoelectric effect.

a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered.

a German-born British biologist, physician and biochemist. He was a pioneer scientist in the study of cellular respiration

a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity while apparently unaware of Gregor Mendel's work