a German physician and astronomer.

an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th president of the Royal Society.

an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture.

a French author who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France

a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky.

a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect