a French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution"

a German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany.

a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders,

a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and their uses as medicines, a herbal, which was first published in 1542 in Latin.

a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification.

a French mathematician known for his theory of integration — summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis