a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature.

a French physician, discoverer of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis

a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theory

a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.

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 climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher