a French landscape and portrait painter. His vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.

a Muslim Andalusian polymath and jurist.

a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's library

a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics.

a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.