an Italian astronomer, microscopist, and botanist.

an Irish satirist, a politician, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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.

a German physicist, philosopher, and experimental psychologist. A pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics (techniques for measuring the mind)

an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings he depicted light, movement and speed.

a Swiss novelist, author of The Black Spider