a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number.

a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry

a Russian physicist. His name was also transliterated as Peter Lebedew and Peter Lebedev. Lebedev was a creator of first scientific school in Russia.

an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and one of Florence's leading patrons of the arts, after only the Medicis

an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England, recognized as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."