a Norwegian writer whose work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment.

a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air"

a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism

a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories, who carried out intensive studies on the behavior of the atmosphere of the Sun.

an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.

a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus.