Memorials & famous biographies

Japanese politician and Prime Minister from 1964 to 1972, known for securing the return of Okinawa and winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 for his efforts in Pacific rim stabilization and signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Italian poet, translator, and literary critic, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful lyrical poetry

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman who won the Prix Goncourt for La Condition Humaine and served as France's first cultural affairs minister under Charles de Gaulle

Indonesia's first president who led the nation to independence from Dutch colonial rule and championed the Non-Aligned Movement

Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989, the longest-reigning in Japanese history, overseeing WWII and the postwar economic miracle, and a dedicated zoologist and marine biologist

Italian–American physicist known as the 'architect of the nuclear age' who created the world's first artificial nuclear reactor and won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with neutron irradiation and slow neutrons