Belgian politician Adolphe Max was born 30 December 1869. He was mayor of Brussels from 6 December 1909 until his death on 6 November 1939. He is best known for refusing to cooperate with the German invasion during WWI, for which he was imprisoned for the duration of the war. He was awarded honorary fellowship for the role he played during WWI.

Ferdinand Foch was born 2 October 1851 to Bertrand Foch and Marie Dupré. He was a key military figure during WWI, being appointed Supreme Allied Commander in March 1918 and leading the defence against the German spring offensive that year. He was one of two Allied signatories of the Armistice and would later argue that the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were too favourable for Germany. He was awarded honorary fellowship for the role he played during WWI. He died 20 March 1929.

Pierre Paul Émile Roux was born December 17 December 1853 in Confolens, France. Trained initially at the Medical School of Clermont-Ferrand and later in Paris, he joined Louis Pasteur’s research laboratory in 1878. Roux’s collaboration with Pasteur led to key breakthroughs in immunology. Notably, he played a crucial role in developing vaccines for anthrax and rabies. His work also included the development of the diphtheria antitoxin serum. In 1883, Roux was instrumental in establishing the Pasteur Institute, an institution dedicated to medical research and public health, where he also set up microbiological training courses. Roux’s later years were spent advancing research and medicine until his death on 3 November 1933. He was awarded honorary fellowship for the role he played during WWI.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was born 18 June 1845 in Paris to military doctor Louis Théodore Laveran and Marie-Louise Anselme Guénard de la Tour Laveran. He obtained his degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1867. He is best known for identifying the protozoan parasite Plasmodium as the causative agent of malaria in 1880, although this discovery was not widely accepted for several years due to the prevailing belief that the cause was bacterial. His work in tropical diseases earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907. He donated half of his prize to establish the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine at the Pasteur Institute. He died 18 May 1922. He was awarded honorary fellowship for the role he played during WWI.

Giovanni Battista Carburi was born in 1722. He became an Italian member of the Royal Society in 1765. At this time, he was a professor of medicine at the University of Turin. He also contributed to ‘Treatise on the tapeworm, methods of healing’ in 1776. He died in 1804.

Also known as Conte Giovanni Battista Carburi or Giambattista Carburi.

Carl Linnaeus was born in 1707 in southern Sweden. He studied medicine at the University of Lund and Uppsala University before obtaining his MD at Harderwijk in 1735. Linnaeus worked as house physician and garden superintendent for the Director of the East India Company at his private garden. Linnaeus’ publications demonstrated the system of nomenclature he developed which used the arrangement of the sexual organs of stamens and pistils to group plants into twenty-four classes, then subdivided into orders, genera and species. He became a medical professor at Uppsala University in 1739. He died in Uppsala in 1778.

Also known as Carl Von Linné. Also catalogued as Charles Linnaeus.

Albrecht Von Haller was born 16 October 1708 in Bern, Switzerland. He studied at the University of Tubingen, as well as at Leiden, London and Paris. After this, he returned to Bern, lecturing on anatomy and working as a physician. When the University of Göttingen was established in 1734, he became a professor of medicine, surgery, anatomy, and botany, posts he held until 1751. He was instrumental in founding the university's Royal Society of Sciences, becoming its secretary and president. He also wrote almost two hundred works across various disciplines, most notably ‘Elementa physiologiae corporis humani’, released 1757-1766 in eight volumes. He died in Bern on 12 December 1777.

Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, was born 13 September 1746 to Francis Scott and Caroline, Baroness Greenwich. He toured Europe from 1764-1766 under the tutelage of Adam Smith. On his return to Scotland, he became heavily involved in business and banking ventures. He was the first president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, serving in the post from 1783 until his death on 11 January 1812.

Jerome David Gaubius was born in Heidelberg in 1705. He studied at the University of Leiden, graduating in 1725. He later succeeded Boerhaave as the Professor of Medicine and Chemistry at Leiden in 1734. He released many works but his most noteworthy was ‘Institutiones pathologiae medicinalis’ in 1758, which achieved widespread popularity and was later translated into multiple other languages. He died in 1780.

Also known as Hieronymus David Gaubius.

James Flint was born in 1732. He was a graduate of the University of Glasgow and was professor of Physic at the University of St. Andrews, as well as being an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians by 1783. He also worked as a physician. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. He died in 1810.