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British Prime Minister, statesman, and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and briefly as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Italian chemist and physicist who invented the electric battery (voltaic pile) and discovered methane, pioneering the field of electrochemistry

German composer, conductor, and pianist who drove the transition from Classical to Romantic music and whose compositions are among the most performed globally

French engineer and physicist who developed the wave theory of light and invented the innovative Fresnel lens, greatly improving lighthouse visibility

Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who championed child-centered learning and integrated intellectual, moral, and physical development

French polymath whose work was instrumental in physics, astronomy, mathematics, and statistics, known for Mécanique céleste and the Bayesian interpretation of probability