a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily in geometry

a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history,

a French chemist, politician, and aeronaut. He is credited with producing the first systematic method of chemical nomenclature.

a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.

a French physicist, mathematician and lay catholic who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".

a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy