Physicists and astronomers

Sebastiaan van Dijken

Sebastiaan van Dijken is a Dutch physicist and professor of applied physics at Aalto University in Finland, known for research in nanomagnetism, spintronics, and magnonics.

Sebastian Reineke

Sebastian Reineke (born 1979) is a German physicist who heads the Chair of Organic Semiconductors at TU Dresden and led the 2009 white OLED efficiency record.

Sébastien Charnoz

Sébastien Charnoz is a French planetary scientist and professor at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, known for his Cassini mission work and research on Saturn's rings and moons.

Sébastien Gleyzes

Sébastien Gleyzes, born 1980, is a French quantum physicist at CNRS's Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, first author of the 2007 Nature paper recording photon quantum jumps.

Seigo Tarucha

Seigo Tarucha (樽茶清悟) is a Japanese physicist at RIKEN known for silicon spin qubits and quantum information research, after twenty years at NTT and the University of Tokyo.

Selim Jochim

Selim Jochim, born 1975 in Leimen, Germany, is a German experimental physicist and professor at Heidelberg University known for the 2003 first observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in molecules.

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Senthil Todadri, who publishes as T. Senthil, is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and MIT professor known for deconfined quantum critical points and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Seok Hyun Yun

Seok Hyun Yun (Korean: 윤석현) is a biomedical engineer and physicist at the Wellman Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard, known for miniature endomicroscopes and Brillouin microscopy.

Serge Haroche

Serge Haroche, born 1944 in Casablanca, is a French physicist and founder of cavity quantum electrodynamics, sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Wineland.

Serge Massar

Serge Massar, born in Zambia in 1970, is a Belgian physicist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who works on quantum information, device-independent cryptography, and reservoir computing.

Sergei D. Odintsov

Sergei D. Odintsov, born 1959, is a Spanish cosmologist at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona who works on modified gravity as an alternative to dark energy.

Sergei K. Turitsyn

Sergei K. Turitsyn is a researcher in nonlinear photonics, soliton theory, and optical communications, Professor at Aston University since 2005 and director of the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies.

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi (born 1955) is a Russian-born Danish physicist working in plasmonics, professor at the University of Southern Denmark and head of its Centre for Nano Optics.

Sergio Ferrara

Sergio Ferrara is a theoretical physicist at CERN who co-discovered supergravity in 1976 with Daniel Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, combining general relativity with supersymmetry, and shared the 2019 Special Breakthrough Prize for it.

Sergio O. Valenzuela

Sergio O. Valenzuela is an experimental physicist working on spintronics, quantum transport, and thermoelectricity, leading the Physics and Engineering of Nanodevices group at ICN2 in Barcelona since 2008.

Seth Barnes Nicholson

Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891–1963) was an American astronomer best known for discovering four satellites of Jupiter and for more than four decades of solar observation at Mount Wilson Observatory.

Seth Carlo Chandler

Seth Carlo Chandler (1846–1913) was an American astronomer and insurance actuary who discovered the Chandler wobble, a 14-month wobble of Earth's rotation axis, announced in 1891.

Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd is a quantum information scientist at MIT, where he directs the Keck Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory, known for the first feasible quantum computer design and the book Programming the Universe.

Seth Neddermeyer

Seth Neddermeyer was an American experimental physicist who co-discovered the muon with Carl Anderson at Caltech and championed the implosion design used in the Trinity test and the Fat Man bomb.

Seth Putterman

Seth Putterman is a UCLA condensed matter physicist whose Nature papers include picosecond sonoluminescence (1991), pyroelectric-crystal fusion (2005), and X-ray flashes from peeling tape (2008).

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Seth Root

Seth Root is an American shock physicist at Sandia National Laboratories who measures planetary materials at extreme pressures on the Z machine and received a 2012 PECASE award.

Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak is an astronomer who served as Senior Astronomer and research director at the SETI Institute in California, known for predicting detection of alien civilizations by about 2036.

Seungwoo Lee

Seungwoo Lee (이승우) is a South Korean nanophotonics and biomicrosystems researcher, tenured since 2024 as a professor at Korea University, known for directional photofluidization lithography and colloidal metamaterials.

Shahal Ilani

Shahal Ilani is an Israeli condensed matter physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the quantum twisting microscope reported in Nature in 2023.

Shanhui Fan

Shanhui Fan (范汕洄) is a Chinese-born American physicist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, known for foundational work in photonic crystal theory and radiative sky cooling.

Sharad Ramanathan

Sharad Ramanathan is an American-based physicist-turned-biologist at Harvard University who studies how cells make developmental decisions, spanning statistical physics, stem cell biology, and human organoid engineering.

Sharon Glotzer

Sharon C. Glotzer, born 1964, is an American computational soft-matter scientist at the University of Michigan known for patchy particles, entropy-driven ordering, and simulated tetrahedral quasicrystals.

Shaul Mukamel

Shaul Mukamel, born 1948, is a theoretical chemist and physicist, Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, known for pioneering coherent multidimensional spectroscopy and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Shaun Cole

Shaun Cole is a British cosmologist and professor at Durham University, known for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, baryon acoustic oscillations, and the 2014 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.