an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Otto Loewi.

the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He previously was the 13th speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and ninth governor of Tennessee (1839–1841).

an Italian anatomist, generally regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students during his 56 years as Professor of Anatomy at the U of Padua.

an Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periods

a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry

a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.