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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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