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John Gribbin (born 1946)
physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer, journalist
- University of Sussex, University of Cambridge
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Brian May (born 1947)
guitarist, astrophysicist, singer, composer, pianist, television presenter, record producer, actor, physicist, research fellow, YouTuber, lyricist
- Imperial College London, University of London
Russell McCormmach (born 1933)
historian, physicist
- Washington State University, Case Western Reserve University
Pavel Florensky (1882-1937)
mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher, engineer, priest, poet
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University
Camille Flammarion (1842-1925)
astronomer, balloonist
- seminary of Langres, Association polytechnique
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, economist, philosopher, engineer, astronomer
- University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765)
astronomer, geologist, physicist, chemist, linguist, poet, historian, philosopher, inventor, mosaicist, geographer, mathematician, politician, painter, scientist, translator
- Slavic Greek Latin Academy, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy