Fritz Haber (1868–1934) was a German chemist whose work had a profound and paradoxical impact on the modern world. He is best known for developing the Haber–Bosch process...
Gertrude Elion (1918–1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist whose pioneering work revolutionised modern drug development. She is best known for co-developing rational drug design, a method based...
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a Russian-born French artist whose work is celebrated for its dreamlike imagery, vivid colour, and deeply personal symbolism. One of the most distinctive figures...
Mark Rothko was an influential twentieth-century painter best known for his large-scale colour field paintings that sought to evoke profound emotional and spiritual responses. Although commonly associated with...
Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor whose work is distinguished by elongated forms, mask-like faces, and a synthesis of classical tradition with modernist innovation. Active primarily...
Lucian Freud was one of the most significant figurative artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, renowned for his uncompromising portraits and nudes that explore the physical...
Camille Pissarro was a central figure in the development of Impressionism and one of the most respected artists of nineteenth-century France. Renowned for his landscapes, rural scenes, and...
Chaim Soutine was a highly influential modern painter whose emotionally charged works bridged early twentieth-century Expressionism and later developments in figurative art. Known for his distorted forms, turbulent...
Max Liebermann was a leading figure in German Impressionism and one of the most influential artists of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. Renowned for his naturalistic depictions...
Ben Shahn was a prominent twentieth-century artist best known for his socially engaged paintings, murals, photographs, and graphic works. Closely associated with Social Realism, Shahn used art as...
