Memorials & famous biographies

American inventor who developed the Audion triode vacuum tube, fundamentally enabling modern radio and long-distance telephony

American writer, novelist, and screenwriter renowned for pioneering hard-boiled detective fiction and creating characters such as Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles

American physicist and Nobel laureate who invented high-pressure apparatus and contributed to the philosophy of science

American economist, sociologist, and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1946 for her lifelong dedication to peace and social justice, and a committed academic and advocate against poverty and child labor

American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and two Academy Awards for Best Actor

Swiss writer, poet, and French foreign legionnaire whose work greatly influenced the European modernist movement

The first King of Morocco who was instrumental in achieving the nation's independence from colonial rule

Jewish-German pharmacologist and neuroscientist who discovered chemical transmission of nerve impulses, sharing the 1936 Nobel Prize

French phenomenological philosopher, art theorist, and aesthetician known for his work on perception and human experience, and co-founder of Les Temps modernes

Italian politician, economist, and banker who served as President of Italy and is recognized as a founding father of the Italian Republic

American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist celebrated for his economical style and adventurous life, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature

Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister from 1950 to 1960, co-founded the Democrat Party, and oversaw Turkey's admission to NATO in 1952

Albanian statesman who served as the nation's prime minister, president, and only king, guiding Albania from 1922 to 1939

Belgian Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and microbiologist who made fundamental discoveries about immunity and bacterial infections

French novelist, polemicist, and physician, Louis-Ferdinand Céline was known for his innovative literary style rooted in working-class speech and his pessimistic depiction of the human condition

Swedish diplomat and economist who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations and was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded analytical psychology and developed the concept of archetypes

Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed the Schrödinger equation and coined 'quantum entanglement,' sharing the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to atomic theory