an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, co-discoverer of penicillin

a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born

a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.

an Italian composer known for his operas. He was of Austrian descent and used the German spelling Pär in application for printing in Venice, and later in France the spelling Paër.

a Polish mathematician who is considered by many one of the 20th-century's most important and influential mathematicians

an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.