a Belgian analytical chemist who co-discovered the atomic weight of carbon.

a German writer and poet from Munich.

a German chemist, physician and philosopher. He was a supporter of vitalism, and until the late 18th century his works on phlogiston were accepted as an explanation for chemical processes.

a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer

a German knight, scholar, poet and satirist, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer.

a German chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics born in Erlangen. In 1820 he built the first sensitive galvanometer, naming it after Luigi Galvani.