All categories›19th century
Lives spanning the 1800s.
3 biographies
German-born theoretical physicist whose work on relativity, the photoelectric effect, and mass-energy equivalence reshaped modern physics.
Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields.
Bengali polymath — poet, writer, painter, and composer — who reshaped Bengali literature and music, and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.