Can you say these famous names in English?

霍金 爱迪生 居里夫人 张衡 孟德尔 阿几米德 达·芬奇 达尔文

Hawking Edison Marie Curie Zhang Heng Mendel Archimedes Da Vinci Darwin

Do these people have anything in common?

What do they usually do as scientists?

Great scientists