American actress renowned for her energetic and off-beat roles in screwball comedies, recognized by the American Film Institute as one of Classic Hollywood's greatest female stars

Austrian writer, poet, historian, and biographer, Stefan Zweig was one of the most widely translated and popular authors in the world during the 1920s and 1930s

British physicist, mathematician, chemist, and crystallographer who uniquely shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his son for their work in X-ray crystallography

Cuban chess player, diplomat, and non-fiction writer who became the third world chess champion, renowned for his endgame skill and speed of play

Canadian writer best known for creating the beloved Anne of Green Gables series and a wide array of other novels, essays, and poems

French physicist and Nobel laureate who experimentally confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his studies of Brownian motion

Austrian philosophical writer known for the influential modernist novel, 'The Man Without Qualities'

Japanese tanka poet, author, feminist, and social reformer known for her influential poetry and contributions to Japanese literature and society

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer known for his lasting influence on ethnography, social theory, and field research

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer whose pioneering work in participant observation and functionalist theory profoundly shaped the discipline of anthropology

German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and principal architect of the Holocaust Genocide, described by Adolf Hitler as "the man with the iron heart"

Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian, and philosopher, canonized as a saint and patron of Europe, murdered at Auschwitz

German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, known as the "Father of American Anthropology," who introduced historical particularism and cultural relativism