Béla Bartók
18811945
Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist who integrated folk music with avant-garde styles, becoming one of the 20th century's most important classical figures
18811945
Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist who integrated folk music with avant-garde styles, becoming one of the 20th century's most important classical figures
18811958
French writer and playwright, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature for his influential novel-cycle Les Thibault
18811965
German chemist and Nobel laureate who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules and characterized them as polymers, revolutionizing material science
18811973
Swiss physiologist who received the Nobel Prize in 1949 for his discoveries regarding the brain's control over internal organ activities