Filipino revolutionary, statesman, and military leader who was the first president of the Philippines and the first president of an Asian constitutional republic

German bacteriologist and pathologist who received the Nobel Prize for discovering prontosil's antibacterial effects

Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and helped launch the Manhattan Project

Finnish writer who became the first Finnish Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1939) for his masterful portrayal of peasant life and nature

British author who created James Bond and revolutionized the spy novel genre with his sophisticated thrillers

Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate known for his discovery of cosmic rays