The document summarizes some of the major scientific and intellectual advances during the Belle Epoque period in Europe. It lists names like Pasteur, Lister, Mendeleev, Comte, Darwin, Spencer, Freud, Einstein, and Nietzsche and briefly outlines some of their major contributions such as germ theory, pasteurization, the periodic table, sociology, the theory of evolution, social Darwinism, psychoanalysis, the theory of relativity, and ideas around the death of God and the will to power. The period saw major scientific and philosophical changes.