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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
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
inventor, explorer, physicist
- King's College London, Richard Huish College, Taunton
René Descartes (1596-1650)
philosopher, mathematician, musicologist, physicist, astronomer, music theorist, correspondent, mechanical automaton engineer, military personnel
- collège Henri-IV de La Flèche, Leiden University
Hal Clement (1922-2003)
astronomer, aircraft pilot, teacher
- Boston University, Harvard University
Inkeri Kontro (born 1984)
physicist
- University of Helsinki
Alan E. Nourse (1928-1992)
physicist
- Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania
Geoffrey A. Landis (born 1955)
flight engineer, engineer, astronomer
- Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan Terlouw (born 1931)
physicist, politician, astrophysicist, nuclear physicist
- Utrecht University