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Sheldon Schultz
Sheldon Schultz (1933–2017) was an American experimental physicist and founding member of the physics department at UC San Diego, known for discovering the first negative-index metamaterial in 2000.
Sheng Meng
Sheng Meng (孟胜) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for simulations of water at surfaces and 2D materials.
Shep Doeleman
Shep Doeleman is an American astrophysicist at Harvard & Smithsonian and founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope, which took the first image of a black hole in 2019.
Sherburne Wesley Burnham
Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838–1921) was an American astronomer and leading observer of double stars, discovering about 1,300 pairs while working as a court reporter in Chicago.
Shigeki Kawai
Shigeki Kawai (川井 茂樹) is a Japanese surface chemist who leads the Nanoprobe Group at NIMS in Tsukuba, known for the 2016 superlubricity of graphene nanoribbons on gold.
Shigeru Ida
Shigeru Ida (井田茂) is a Japanese planetary scientist known for theoretical work on planet formation, from the Moon's origin to exoplanet populations, and a former president of the Astronomical Society of Japan.
Shih‐I Chu
Shih-I Chu (朱时宜) was a Taiwanese atomic, molecular, and optical physicist, Watkins Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas and a 2006 Academia Sinica academician.
Shik Shin
Shik Shin (辛埴, born 1953) is a Japanese condensed-matter physicist at the University of Tokyo, known for high-resolution photoemission studies of superconductors and topological materials.
Shin’ichi Nojiri
Shin'ichi Nojiri (野尻 伸一) is a Japanese theoretical physicist known for modified-gravity models of dark energy, including modified Gauss–Bonnet and f(R) gravity, and a Nagoya University emeritus professor.
Shinsei Ryū
Shinsei Ryū (笠 真生) is a Japanese theoretical physicist and professor at Princeton University, known for the Ryu–Takayanagi formula of 2006 and the tenfold-way classification of topological phases.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson, born 1946, is an American theoretical physicist, the first Black woman to earn an MIT doctorate, and was chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Shiv N. Khanna
Shiv N. Khanna is a physicist known for proposing the superatom concept, the idea that atomic clusters mimic single atoms, during a 39-year career at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin, born in Jerusalem in 1942, is an Israeli physicist at Bar-Ilan University known for work on complex and interdependent networks and the 2018 Israel Prize.
Shmuel Elitzur
Shmuel Elitzur is an Israeli physicist and full professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for the 1975 result called Elitzur's theorem.
Shohini Ghose
Shohini Ghose is a Canadian quantum information physicist, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, and Chief Technology Officer of the Quantum Algorithms Institute, known for first experiments showing chaos's effect on quantum entanglement.
Shoichi Sakata
Shoichi Sakata (坂田 昌一, 1911–1970) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Nagoya University known for the 1956 Sakata model of hadrons and the 1962 Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata neutrino mixing framework.
Shou-Cheng Zhang
Shou-Cheng Zhang (张首晟, 1963–2018) was a Stanford condensed matter physicist, born in Shanghai, who predicted the quantum spin Hall effect and the first topological insulator, confirmed by experiment in 2007.
Shoucheng Zhang
Shoucheng Zhang (张首晟, 1963–2018) was a Stanford condensed matter physicist who predicted the quantum spin Hall effect in 2006 and the topological insulators confirmed experimentally in 2007.
Shrinivas Kulkarni
Shrinivas Kulkarni is an Indian-born American astronomer, the George Ellery Hale Professor at Caltech, known for millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray burst distances, and founding the Zwicky Transient Facility.
Shu‐ichiro Inutsuka
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka (犬塚 修一郎) is a Japanese theoretical astrophysicist and professor at Nagoya University since 2009, known for work on star and planet formation, molecular clouds, and solar wind simulations.
Shuji Nakamura (中村修二)
Shuji Nakamura (中村修二), born 1954, is a Japanese materials scientist at UC Santa Barbara who invented the high-brightness blue LED and shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Sidney Coleman
Sidney Richard Coleman (1937–2007) was an American theoretical physicist and Harvard professor, one of the leading quantum field theorists, known for the Coleman–Weinberg mechanism and false vacuum decay.
Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell (1926–2016) was an American theoretical physicist at Stanford University and SLAC, known for the Drell–Yan process and four decades advising the US government on nuclear weapons policy.
Sidney Nagel
Sidney Nagel, also known as Sidney R. Nagel, is an American experimental physicist at the University of Chicago known for work on jamming, granular materials, and the glass transition.
Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney van den Bergh, born in the Netherlands in 1929, is a Canadian astronomer known for the DDO galaxy luminosity classification, supernova-host correlations, and a shared 2014 Gruber Cosmology Prize.
Siegfried Bethke
Siegfried Bethke, born 1954 in Ludwigshafen, Germany, is a German experimental particle physicist known for measuring the strong coupling constant and leading ATLAS research at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.
Siegfried Glenzer
Siegfried Glenzer is a plasma physicist and director of the High Energy Density Science division at SLAC, known for x-ray Thomson scattering and the first fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility.
Siegfried Großmann
Siegfried Großmann (1930–2025) was a German theoretical physicist at Philipps-Universität Marburg, regarded as a co-founder of chaos theory and one of the leading turbulence researchers of his generation.
Sigmund Strauss
Sigmund Strauss, also spelled Siegmund Strauß, was an Austrian physicist and radio engineer in Vienna, a pioneer of radio engineering who died in New York in 1942.
Silvano De Franceschi
Silvano De Franceschi, born in Milan in 1970, is an Italian experimental physicist at CEA Grenoble known for Kondo-effect work in carbon nanotubes and pioneering hole spin qubits.