a French physician, naval engineer and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Duhamel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

a Dutch poet, historian, lawyer, and linguist.

a Swedish chemist. He discovered the rare earth elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.

a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry

a German physicist; scientific endeavors with contributions in optics, crystallography, quantum theory, superconductivity, and the theory of relativity,

a German theoretical physicist and one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics.