All articles starting with M

Martin Wild

Martin Wild is a professor at ETH Zurich's Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science known for his work on global dimming and brightening, including his 2005 Science paper.

Oct 10, 2026

Martin Wilhelm Kutta (1867–1944) was a German mathematician who gave the classical fourth-order Runge–Kutta method for solving differential equations and, independently of Zhukovsky, the airfoil lift theorem.

Martin Winter

Martin Winter (1955-1988) was an East German rower with SC Magdeburg who won quadruple sculls gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and four world titles (1977, 1978, 1981, 1982), later a coach who died at 32.

Sep 19, 2026

Martin Wood (physicist)

Sir Martin Wood (1927–2021) was a British physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Oxford Instruments in 1959 with his wife Audrey, Oxford University's first spin-out company.

Martin Yan (甄文达)

Martin Yan (甄文达, Yan Man-tat), born 1948 in Guangzhou, is a Chinese-American master chef and host of the PBS series Yan Can Cook (1982), with over 3,500 episodes, 30-plus cookbooks, and the 2022 James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award; not Stephen Yan of Wok with Yan.

Martin Yanofsky

Martin F. Yanofsky is an American plant developmental biologist at UC San Diego who identified major genes controlling flower and fruit development in Arabidopsis, including AGAMOUS and FRUITFULL.

Martin Z. Bazant

Martin Z. Bazant is an American chemical engineer, mathematician, and physicist at MIT known for theories of electrochemical transport, including coupled ion–electron transfer in lithium iron phosphate batteries.

Martin Zdenek Bazant

Martin Zdenek Bazant is a chemical engineer and applied mathematician at MIT, known for theoretical electrochemistry, battery modeling, and a 2021 indoor COVID-19 transmission guideline.

Martin Zenke

Martin Zenke (born 1953) is a German molecular biologist and Senior Professor of Cell Biology at RWTH Aachen University, known for work on oncoproteins and stem cells.

Sep 19, 2026

Martin Zielinski

Martin Zielinski is a German software engineer and co-founder of Yaak Technologies, a Berlin startup whose driver-coaching and AI driving-data platform he built as chief technology officer.

Oct 10, 2026

Martin Zirnbauer

Martin R. Zirnbauer, born 1958 in Moosburg, Germany, is a German theoretical physicist at the University of Cologne, known for the Altland–Zirnbauer symmetry classes and the tenfold-way classification of topological insulators and superconductors.

Martín Zubimendi

Martín Zubimendi (Martín Zubimendi Ibáñez, born 1999, San Sebastián) is a Spanish defensive midfielder; Real Sociedad academy product with 236 club appearances, Euro 2024 winner with Spain, signed by Arsenal in July 2025 for a £51m release clause.

Sep 20, 2026

Martin Zwierlein

Martin Zwierlein is an experimental physicist at MIT who studies ultracold fermionic atoms and quantum gas microscopy, known for demonstrating superfluidity in a strongly interacting Fermi gas.

Martin-Baker

Martin-Baker is a British family-run engineering company based at Denham, Buckinghamshire, founded in 1934, whose ejection seats have saved 7,825 aircrew since 1946 across 86 countries.

Martín-Josè Sepúlveda

Martín-Josè Sepúlveda is a physician and public health researcher who spent three decades at IBM and is now a Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University.

Oct 15, 2026

Martin-Löf randomness

Martin-Löf randomness is the standard formal notion of algorithmic randomness for individual infinite binary sequences, introduced by the Swedish logician Per Martin-Löf in his 1966 paper "The definition of random sequences".

Oct 15, 2026

Martin-Löf type theory

Martin-Löf type theory (MLTT), also called intuitionistic type theory, is a constructive formal system devised by Per Martin-Löf that underlies proof assistants like Coq and Agda.

Martin's axiom

Martin's axiom (MA) is a set-theoretic statement that any family of fewer than continuum many dense subsets of a ccc partial order can all be met by one filter.

Martin's maximum

Martin's Maximum (MM) is a forcing axiom of set theory, isolated by Foreman, Magidor, and Shelah in 1988 and ostensibly the strongest possible of its general form.

Oct 10, 2026

Martina

Martina is a Roman virgin and martyr of Catholic tradition, put to death around 228 under Pope Urban I and honored in Rome on 30 January.

Martina Bischof

Martina Bischof, née Fischer (born 1957, Berlin), East German kayak sprinter; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold in K2 500 m with Carsta Genäuß, plus four gold and two silver world championship medals 1977-1979.

Martina Boesler

Martina Boesler (born 1957, Berlin), also Wieduwilt and Kirchner, East German rower with SC Berlin-Grünau; won gold in the women's eight at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and 1979 world silver; sister of Olympian Petra Boesler.

Martina Brueckner

Martina Brueckner is a Yale School of Medicine physician-scientist and cardiologist known for discovering how cilia establish left-right asymmetry and for gene discovery in congenital heart disease.

Sep 27, 2026

Martina Englhardt-Kopf

Martina Englhardt-Kopf, born 1981 in Schwandorf, is a German CSU politician, a member of the Bundestag since 2021, and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.

Martina Fernández

Martina Fernández (born 2004, Ordis, Spain), Spanish centre back; La Masia product, Barcelona debutant at 17, loaned then sold to Everton 2025, re-signed by Barcelona in July 2026 to 2029; Spain U19 Euro winner 2022 and 2023.

Martina H. Stenzel

Martina H. Stenzel, Professor Martina Stenzel, is an Australian polymer chemist and ARC Laureate Fellow at UNSW Sydney known for complex polymer architectures and nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery.

Martina Hellmann

Martina Hellmann (born Opitz, 1960, Leipzig), East German discus thrower; 1988 Olympic champion (72.30 m OR), world champion 1983 and 1987; unofficial 78.14 m in 1988; later sports scientist and cabaret manager.

Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis, the "Swiss Miss", Swiss tennis champion; youngest Grand Slam winner (1997 Australian Open, 16y 3m 26d) and youngest World No.1; 25 majors: 5 singles, 13 doubles, 7 mixed.

Martina Jäschke

Martina Jäschke (born 1960, Merseburg or Halle) is a German former diver for East Germany; Olympic gold, 10 m platform, Moscow 1980 (596.250 points), fifth in springboard, 1978 world silver.