Who (might have) met whom

Sciences, music and (French) litterature have always been major topics for me. I wondered who, among these scientists, composers and writers I'd heard about, would have had the opportunity to get to know each other.

For example, did you know that Eugene Wigner was born around the same time as Raymond Queneau

• Eugene Paul Wigner (17/11/1902 - 1/1/1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, known for relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution and Wigner–Seitz radius.
• Raymond Queneau (21/2/1903 - 25/10/1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, known for writing Exercices de style and Cent mille milliards de poèmes.

A selection of individuals can be viewed by clicking the button below. Note that all information is taken from Wikipedia. Last update: January 14, 2025