Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888 - 1970) was a Hebrew nobel prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon. Read Feature Article

Israel (1998) 50 New Sheqalim (front) - Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Ernest Rutherford (1871 – 1937) was a chemist and a physicist who became known as the "father" of nuclear physics. Read Feature Article

New Zealand (1992) 100 Dollars (fronts) Portrait of Lord Ernest Rutherford

A 500,000,000,000 (500 billion) Yugoslav dinar banknote circa 1993, the largest nominal value ever officially printed in Yugoslavia, the final result of hyperinflation.

Yugoslavia (1993) 500,000,000,000 Dinara

Yugoslavia suffered 5 × 10¹⁵ % inflation between 1 October 1993 and 24 January 1994.

Egas Moniz, (1874 — 1955) was a Portuguese neurologist. He was the first Portuguese to receive a Nobel Prize, "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses". Read Feature Article

Portugal (1991) 10,000 Escudos (front) - Portrait of Egas Moniz

Winston Churchill was known chiefly for his leadership of Great Britain during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, a noted statesman and orator, winner of Nobel Literature 1953. Read Feature Article

Gibraltar (1995) 50 Pounds - Portrait of Winston Churchill

Ivo Andric (1892 - 1975) was a novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature from Yugoslavia Read Feature Article

Yugoslavia (1993) 10,000,000 Dinara (front) - Portrait of Ivo Andric

Niel Bohr (1885 - 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Read Feature Article

Denmark (1997) 500 Kroner (front) - Portrait of Niels Bohr

Gabriela Mistral a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Read Feature Article

Chile (1996) 5,000 Pesos (front) - Portrait of Gabriela Mistral

Erwin Schrodinger was an Austrian - Irish physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrodinger equation Read Feature Article

Austria (1983) 1,000 Schilling (front) - Portrait of Erwin Schrodinger

Albert Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. Read Feature Article

Israel (1968) 5 Lirot (front) - Portrait of Albert Einstein