a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea,

a Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of viruses (1892) and one of the founders of virology.

a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus.

a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings

an Italian novelist and proponent of Liberal Catholicism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times, known for The Little World of the Past (1895), The Saint (1905)

a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid mechanics