an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.

a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere.

a German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics.

an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, especially The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.

a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature".

a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism