an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism

a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass and achromatic telescope objective lenses, invented the spectroscope, and developed diffraction grating

a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists

an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium.

a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, Le Diable boiteux, his comedy Turcaret, and his picaresque novel Gil Blas.

a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. Her work is noted for its intensity and its blunt, unapologetic humanity