a German Expressionist poet and playwright. His works were banned when the Nazis came to power and he went into exile in France. There he was imprisoned as a "foreign enemy".

a British biochemist and nutritionist who discovered vitamin D and its role in preventing rickets in 1919.

a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease. He was an important figure in the development of modern medicine.

a Swedish physicist and chemist who in 1807, working in coordination with Jöns Jakob Berzelius, noted that in electrolysis any given substance always went to the same pole

a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons (1796).

a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca