Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a famed 19th century scholar, novelist and poet, known for works like 'Voices of the Night,' 'Evangeline' and 'The Song of Hiawatha.'

• Poet, Author
  (1807–1882)

Mathematician John Venn developed George Boole's symbolic logic and is best known for Venn diagrams, which pictorially represent the relations between sets.

• Mathematician
  (c. 1834–c. 1923)

Edwin Land is best known as the inventor of the Polaroid camera and film, and as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.

• Scientist, Physicist, Inventor
  (1909–1991)

British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s Treatise on Universal Algebra extended Boolean symbolic logic. He received the Order of Merit.

• Mathematician, Journalist, Philosopher
  (1861–1947)

American psychologist B.F. Skinner is best known for developing the theory of behaviorism, and for his utopian novel Walden Two (1948).

• Psychologist
  (1904–1990)

Economist Franco Modigliani won a Nobel Prize in 1985 for his research of household savings and financial markets.

• Economist
  (1918–2003)

Henry Cabot Lodge was an American politician from Massachusetts and the first U.S. Senate majority leader.

• U.S. Representative, Political Scientist, Historian
  (1850–1924)

Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes served as dean of Harvard Medical School, but was best known for his poetry and "Breakfast-Table" essays.

• Educator, Poet, Author, Scientist, Doctor, Physiologist
  (1809–1894)

Annie Jump Cannon was a pioneering astronomer responsible for the classification of hundreds of thousands of stars.

• Astronomer
  (1863–1941)

Social activist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for being a lifetime advocate of the persecuted and oppressed.

• Educator
  (1867–1961)

J.J. Thomson was a Nobel Prize winning physicist whose research led to the discovery of electrons.

• Physicist, Academic, Scientist
  (1856–1940)

Physicist Ernest Rutherford was the central figure in the study of radioactivity who led the exploration of nuclear physics.

• Physicist, Scientist
  (1871–1937)

César Milstein developed monoclonal antibody production and received a Nobel Prize in 1984. Monoclonal antibodies are used in pregnancy tests and diagnosing diseases.

• Scientist, Immunologist
  (1927–2002)