| FERMAT | 17th-century French mathematician regarded as the founder of modern number theory (6,2,6) |
| PIERREDE | 17th-century French mathematician regarded as the founder of modern number theory (6,2,6) |
| DESCARTES | Rene, French mathematician regarded as the founder of modern philosophy (9) |
| NEW | Modern number you and I backed (3) |
| RENE | French mathematician born in 1596 regarded as the founder of modern philosophy (4,9) |
| RENEDESCARTES | French mathematician born in 1596 regarded as the founder of modern philosophy |
| BOOLE | George ___, 19th-century Lincoln-born mathematician regarded as one of the founders of the field of |
| SCARLATTI | Surname of father and son Italian composers, the father being regarded as the founder of modern opera (9) |
| ALANTURING | Mathematician regarded as the father of modern computer science (4,6) |
| PUSHKIN | Russian poet, regarded as the founder of modern Russian literature (7) |
| ALESSANDROSCARLATTI | Italian composer regarded as the founder of modern opera |
| ADALOVELACE | Nineteenth-century mathematician regarded as the first computer programmer |
| BLAISE | 17th Century French mathematician and philosopher who developed the theory of probability with Pierr |
| PASCAL | 17th Century French mathematician and philosopher who developed the theory of probablity with Pierre |
| LISTER | He published important work on antiseptics in March 1867 that helped reduce high hospital mortality rates from septic inflammation. He is regarded as the founder of modern surgical practice, and his n |
| PASCALSTRIANGLE | Number pattern named after a 17th-century French mathematician |
| WEBER | One of the founders of modern sociology; or, the German physicist who invented the electromagnetic telegraph with his friend Carl Friedrich Gauss (5) |
| EDMUNDBURKE | 18th-century British Whig statesman regarded as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) |
| ANTISTHENES | Athenian philosopher in the time of Socrates regarded as the founder of the Cynic school (11) |
| ATATURK | Kemal ___ (1881 - 1938) the founder of modern Turkey who was president from 1923 to 1938 (7) |
