a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry

an English mathematician and Anglican cleric. He founded what has been called the British algebra of logic.

an Italian physicist, chemist and lay Catholic who was a pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane

a Swiss symbolist painter.

a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature.

a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement