a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. Considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time and a masterly French stylist

an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint, and did botanical work.

one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century

a Norwegian chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Kristiania. Along with his brother-in-law Cato Maximilian Guldberg, he co-discovered and developed the law of mass action

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

a German chemist from Berlin, then capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and a pioneer of analytical chemistry