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Raymond Queneau (1903-1976)
poet, playwright, translator, mathematician
- University of Paris
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)
philosopher, poet, employee of a public institution, mathematician, physicist, literary theorist
- Faculty of Arts of Paris
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
mathematician, physicist, music theorist, astronomer, scientist, inventor, executive, geographer
- University of Basel
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
naturalist, astrologer, protestant theologian, mathematician, astronomer, musicologist, physicist, cosmologist, music theorist, philosopher, teacher, inventor
- University of Tübingen, Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren
Giordano Bruno (1547-1600)
astronomer, philosopher, poet, astrologer, mathematician, Latin Catholic priest
- University of Naples Federico II
Pavel Florensky (1882-1937)
mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher, engineer, priest, poet
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University
Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793)
astronomer, politician, mathematician, mayor
- French Academy of Sciences
John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)
librarian, surgeon, statistician, botanist
- Miami University, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine