an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751

a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion

a German novelist, literary theorist and translator

a Danish chemist, famous for the introduction of the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and alkalinity.

a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the fathers of modern psychology.

a Russian author of short stories.