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

an Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays.

an Austrian mineralogist and mining engineer. During his time in Transylvania he discovered tellurium in 1782

a French artist. He began his study of art at the age of eleven at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris.

a German poet and botanist, author of Peter Schlemihl, a famous story about a man who sold his shadow

a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838)